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[Neil Palmer <NeilP@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"decouple the naming of the operating system" ?
What do you think the 5 in i5 refers to?  What do they do when the Power6 
processor comes out.  :-)

...Neil 




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Rick,  Comments inline ... John

At 09:39 AM 4/28/2004, you wrote:

>Top (i)5 reasons I think the name change is good - (5 through 2 are 
really
>the same reason)
>
>    5.  IBM already screwed up the marketing opportunity it had with 
iSeries
>    by not marketing the name at all.
>4.  i5 is new, flashy and easy to remember.
>3.  i5 ties nicely to bleeding edge power 5 technology.
>2.  it gives IBM one more chance to market to the guys with the big desks
>who get their IT expertise from financial magazines.

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!!!

>and the number one reason I think changing iseries to i5 is a good thing
>
>1.  updating my resume with experience on another platform should be 
worth
>at least another 5K-10K a year!

... and you dare complain about outsourcing ... that's the kind of 
attitude 
that drives corporate management toward finding lower cost 
alternatives!!!!!

>Rick

John