yet another take on the renaming

["Westdorp, Tom" <tom.westdorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems to me we've taken a step backwards.  

I'm old enough to remember the 360, 370, 38, 390 arguments.  I remember
being happy when the /400 took its (rightful) place at the top of the
overall numerical line (not just 34,36,38).  I laughed at the RS/6000, hell
why not RS6billion?  But now it's back to the 400, 600, 900 crap.  iseries,
pseries, zseries... phooey.  Geeks don't talk like that, we use the numbers.
I'm on a /400 m820 2way, the devbox is a 720.  My pc is a PII 333.  An 820
is better than a 720.  A PIII is better than a PII and a PII 650 is better
than a PII 333.  So a 600 is better than a 400 and a 900 is better than a
600.  Stated another way since a 900 is better than a 600, a 600 is
therefore better than a 400.  Sure I know it's not true, but that's how the
lil bitty computer geeks will see it.  The question will be: can we scale up
from a 400 to a 600 when it's time?  And yes, I know that I'm misusing
'better' above but in the geek world bigger is better.  Faster is better.
More is better.  64 bits is better than 48 bits is better than 32 bits.
More caffeine is better than less caffeine.  

They should have dropped the numbers completely, but they know how real
folks refer to the lines.  

Who are they trying to fool?  Damn commodities salesmen think the only
difference in the products is the name.  Next step will be the "inew
e-improved eseries iserver 10k for the emillenium -- now with Copper!"
Don't sell the features, nah, just make up a kewl new name.  Who's in charge
at IBM, PT Barnum?

Tom Westdorp
AS/400 Senior Programmer/Analyst 
IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Programmer
IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer 
Certified Master RPG IV Programmer 
tom.westdorp@stationcasinos.com 

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