Re: i5....continues...

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

in order to ease my customers into "iSeries", i always used the term
"iSeries AS/400", and for the truly uninformed... it was the long phrase

"iSeries AS/400... it's like the difference between Win 95 and Win XP...
this is the new & greatly improved version of AS/400 from IBM"!
and now it will be (to me) "i5 AS/400, the new and greatly improved ....

As IBM puts in their handbook, "the next generation..."
i don't have a problem with this. i look forward to explaining the new
features, and even the existing features not yet used by many companies.
jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 12:23 PM
Subject: RE: i5....continues...


> I was sort of under the impression that the name of the O/S was already
> decoupled from the name of the hardware....
>
> My 2¢, rebranding again after such a short time just dilutes the value of
> the brand.  Two years ago when I first tried to get my job description
> changed to iSeries Administrator I was told "No one knows what that is."
> The only reason it finally did get changed was that we bought an upgrade
and
> now the boss knows what an iSeries is.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Ingvaldson
> iSeries System Administrator
> GuideOne Insurance Group
>
> -----Original Message-----
> date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:11:14 -0400
> from: John Myers - MM <jmyersmm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: i5....continues...
>
> With luck, they will FINALLY decouple the naming of the operating system
> from the hardware that runs it!!!  That is the greatest CURSE of we carry
> in terms of "proprietary" positioning!!!!
>
> As long as the OS NAME is associated with the hardware, we will not be
> perceived to be "open" by the computing profession!!!
>
> John
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