Re: OS/400 i5/OS -- MIDRANGE-L

Don,

It is the people who are familiar with the platform who keep asking forAS/400 resources. It is from WITHIN that is causing the industry to think weare a bunch of backward operators! With the i5 and IBMs commitment tomarketing, we are at a crossroads! If WE can change the way we think aboutour platform, then we CAN change the world. It will just take some gettingover our stubborn inabilities to change!!

And, an AS/400 is NOT a S/38 or S/36 or S/34. So it needed a new name. And,the power5 technology is not an AS/400. So, there can be valid reasons forname changes. Sure, it is something that is hard to take, but we are here -so let us move forward and not live in the past!

Windows is an OS only - so we are talking oranges and pears here (no, noapples). Our platform includes hardware and OS and security and databaseand.... To get the equivalent, we would have to name things:

Compaq+Windows
HP+Windows
Dell+Windows
etc...

And, while the Windows name remains consistent, we did have 3.1, 95, 98,2000, XP, 2003 and now Vista.

And POSTIVE NAME RECOGNITION is definitely a good thing. Now that IBM ismarketing, and we know the AS/400 has not a positive reputation, WE shouldall be using the iSeries as a name - a POSITIVE NAME - so that thenot-yet-faithful will have a chance to learn about this new and amazingtechnology!


Trevor

----- Original Message -----From: "Don"

Subject: Re: OS/400 i5/OS

Well, Trevor,
One thing I discovered when doing the research for the jobsarticle...people are still posting the vast majority of thier help wantedadsas jobs on a AS/400. Which is why I tell people to use BOTH AS400 andiSeries when doing a job search.
It's not just us biggots, it's the industry. Gee, ya think Microsoftchanges the name of their O/S just because they come out with a newrelease? We've had S/36, S/34, S/38, AS/400, iSeries, eServer, i5....And all the time M$ has just had WINDOWS... Regardless of what you thinkof thequality of their product, it DOES have what we lack and need - POSITIVENAME RECOGNITION
Don in DC