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

Good points dude...

Now, here's paradigm shift that's needed. We NEED to stop talking/thinkingin terms of HARDWARE and be thinking in terms of SOFTWARE and O/S...

One of the big reasons that Windows, linux, etc., are making inroads isthat people generally don't care what or whos server it runs on . As longas the underlying chipset is compliant, the software should work.

I submit that this shift started just before Y2K really hit high gearshortly after Y2k.... It's the applications that sell...people ask aboutthe hardware and O/S as secondary and perhaps tertiary concerns... But, ifwe're going to survive longer term, I think a standard name for the O/Sneeds to be determined and stuck with long term. And the O/S is what needsto be heavily marketed.


Don in DC


At 11:52 AM 11/29/2005 -0600, you wrote:

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 thinkwe are 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 validreasons for name changes. Sure, it is something that is hard to take, butwe 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 wanted adsas 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 youthink of thequality of their product, it DOES have what we lack and need - POSITIVENAME RECOGNITION
Don in DC
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