RE: renamed to: Get users to stop saying AS/400

We are slowly escaping the AS400 name as we move from 5250 to web based. Green-screen is AS400 and the web based apps we have named as EIS (Employee Information System). All runs on the same box but most don't care what the platform is or what its called as long as it works. The only problem we ever reallyi had with the name AS400 was when to few employees who are curious google AS400 and then make statements like "Your using 12 year old technology!!!! Isn't that going to fall apart soon?"

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:24 PM
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Subject: RE: renamed to: Get users to stop saying AS/400


Robert,

Makes sense to me...and interestingly enough, yours is the only one so far that I've seen that hasn't a pithy retort to it... :)

I think that the MAJORITY of the MIDRANGE world agrees with you.

DR2

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Ostrowski
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 12:31 PM
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Subject: RE: renamed to: Get users to stop saying AS/400

If you ask someone for a Kleenex, and all they have in front of them is a box of Puffs, do they tell you they don't have any for you?

All of our management and users still use "AS400".
I don't think we'll ever escape using it.











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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Lampert
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:18 AM
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Subject: Re: renamed to: Get users to stop saying AS/400

Trevor Perry wrote:

Because the AS/400 has been a dead platform for 12 years?

Because IBM sells IBM i on Power, and we want a future for out

platform?

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."
--William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene ii.

There is far more difference in both hardware and software architecture between a current model MacBook, and the original Mac128, then there is between, say, an E4B and a B10, and yet they're both called Macintoshes.

Likewise, far more difference between WinDoze Vista and WinDoze 286 than

there is between V7.1 and V1R1, and yet Microsloth still calls it WinDoze.

Yet IBM feels compelled to change names more often than some people I know change their underwear.

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