Re: V4R5 -- MIDRANGE-L

At 03:40 PM 06/27/2000 -0700, you wrote:

The truth of the matter is that V4R5 is a relatively trivial release of the 
system.  There is not a lot of new function, and hardware enablement was 
the major piece. V5R1 (which IBM pre-announced at COMMON) will be a major 
new function release.

When I say that V4R5 is trivial, you should keep in mind that it is a new 
release, so the bugs have to shake out.  On the other hand, it does 
continue with Rochester's heritage of stable releases through the life of 
the RISC AS/400.

The rumor mill is that Armonk is asking all of the IBM products to re-brand 
to the same name, and the second part of that rumor is that AS/400 is 
resisting.  Rebranding to one name (the RSASSNetfinity/3904006000) would 
only interject massive confusion into the marketplace, and would further 
delude AS/400's superior position in the marketplace.  IBM's internal CIA 
still tries to keep the AS/400 as a state secret, lest someone new might go 
to the platform.

With regard to News/400 (which I have a professional affiliation with), 
this goes to show that Cheryl Ross knows her stuff, and Les Eastling got 
intoxicated with Big Blue's Bullshit.

Al


>Are you serious? You want all tech editors and in-house editors at the 
>midrange magazines to goose-step to the same tune?
>
>  ... Chuck
>
>
>At 04:46 PM 6/27/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>I just got the latest NEWS/400 issue.
>>
>>On page 11, Wayne Madden bubbles over with:
>>"Les Eastling, alliance director, stated that when IBM
>>disclosed the newest OS/400 release, V4R5, the
>>Sapiens developers were "blown away" by the
>>progress in the operating system",
>>
>>yet on page 29, Cheryl Ross, laments:
>>"It seems IBM spent so much effort on its latest
>>hardware that the software got short shrift.
>>V4R5 [...] offers little in the way of new features."
>>
>>Now wouldn't it be loverly if our trade rags
>>could get their story straight?
>
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