RE: i5/OS...

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, while I don't disagree with your Buck, I was reading something in
a computer pub last week on this and many times the "behind the scenes"
name(s) cannot be trade marked, are used to allow the folks involved to have
something they name and something to rally around during development, etc. 

They used the classic Power Mac example of this. The developers were calling
it the Sagan and Carl's lawyers got hold of Apple and threatened to sue. So
they started called it the BHS and he found out about that too and again
threatened to sue. BHS stood for Butt Head Scientist... :-)

Chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 12:46 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: i5/OS...

> Is this the BEST that Ogylvie and Mather or whoever has to offer?

IBM always did it backward.  The secret labs had cool project names
like Pacific and Silverlake.  When marketing got hold of them, they
became System/38 and Application Server/400.  Everybody else has
secret project S38495-j until marketing christens it something like
'Oracle'.
  --buck



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