Re: i5....continues...

["Keith Carpenter" <CarpCon@xxxxxxx>]

Probably more than just a name change.

There's been some articles about these new Power5 "squadron" boxes being
used to consolidate the iSeries and pSeries product line.  One box
(eServer), multiple OS choices.

Watch for Power5 announcements for the pSeries and AIX later this year.
Eventually the zSeries will more to Power architecture as well.  Just leaves
the xSeries...


Keith


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Barber" <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: i5....continues...


> My point was that name recognition is everything in
> marketing and when a product loses it's name, it is
> VERY hard to get that back.
>
> IBM has spent millions in losing the name recognition of
> a box nobody clearly understood to begin with.
>
> A new name was/is not what the product line needed.
>
> A product line that has less than 8% in "new installs"
> needs much more than a new name.
>
> Assuming the rumor is true about a new name, giving the
> name i5/os will obscure the product even more.
>
>
> trevor perry wrote:
> > I don't understand something. So far, the noise about i5/OS has been
mostly
> > complaining. What is going on?
>
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