RE: eServer iSeries or i5?

["Urbanek, Marty" <Marty_Urbanek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IBM really confused people (me) with that brilliant move.

I think "i5" only refers to the ones running POWER5 chips. Whether those are 
called iSeries in addition to i5, I am not sure. And the operating system on an 
i5 is i5/OS V5R3, but the same code is OS/400 V5R3 when running on an iSeries 
(non-i5).

Is it "eServer iSeries i5"? or did eServer go away with i5? or did iSeries go 
away? It seems to me that the advertising still says eServer, and it really 
wouldn't look consistent to have all the other eServers (zSeries, pSeries, 
xSeries) and have our guy called just "i5", so I suspect it is "eServer iSeries 
i5". But don't hold me to it. Lord knows we can't hold IBM to it (for long).

Anybody know if the AIX box with POWER5 became "p5" and if AIX was renamed, 
Ai5X/OS, perhaps?

-Marty

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date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:37:43 -0500
from: "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: eServer iSeries or i5?

OK, I didn't attend common, but I'm reading my copy of Insider Weekly
and I see some Q&As from the Town Hall meeting. So, 
 
Q: How do we educate about name change, everyone calls it an AS/400.
A: "... iSeries is the name, so correct everyone..." -- Peter Bingaman,
VP Marketing, IBM Somers
 
Hmmmm, but I thought the new new name was i5, so off to ibm.com/iseries
I go and the top of the page says "Midrange Servers: iSeries", but the
title of the page says "IBM Midrange Servers - eServer i5 and iSeries",
the Featured topics section starts "IBM eServer iSeries is a
premier...", but the green "Consolidation without disruption" case study
above that section says "IBM eServer i5 helps..." 
 
So, what IS the name of the box? Are there two boxes? Peter seems to be
rather sure that it's an iSeries, but I'm not sure the rest of IBM is
under the same opinion. 
 
-Walden