Re: COMMON

[jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Whoa, timeout folks.

I didn't say LAST COMMON !!!

I said (if the name change happens this fast)  it will be the last COMMON
that we will talk about
an "AS/00"   !!!!      That's all I meant.   Like 1987 was the last Sys/38
COMMON.

I did not mean last COMMON God forbid.
If it is the last COMMON that we will have the AS/400 name,  I would like
to know for sure
cause I would find alot of reasons to make a Toast !

John


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>> Hey,

>> Under the  "I just wanted to be the first to say it"   department

>> Who's going to the LAST(?)  AS/400 COMMON ??

>> John Carr

>> http://www.informationweek.com/797/ibm.htm
<<... Sources say Gerstner and Palmisano have all but signed off on a plan
to unify IBM's Netfinity,
RS/6000, AS/400, and mainframe servers under a single brand by the fourth
quarter.>>

What a depressing thought, John...  Even if the rebranding occurs, and IBM
continues to fail at advertising what was the AS/400, won't there still be
a
midrange user community with a lot in common that would still want to
continue
meeting and learning from one another?  Surely the user community doesn't
have
to vanish even if the AS/400 ends up in a masquerade costume, does it???

I'll be in Baltimore, but I sure don't want it to be the last conference...

What does everyone else think???

Janet Krueger

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