RE: OS/400 i5/OS

["Elvis Budimlic" <ebudimlic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How can anyone be certain that once Power6 processors come out, the OS name
will remain i5/OS?  Even if it does, it'd become even stranger then (i.e.
behind times again?).

Here are two simplistic reasons to stick with the iSeries in our everyday
language and any professional correspondence from my point of view:

1) I believe iSeries has a staying power.  It's the 'series' not a one-off.
So even if IBM comes out with the next part of the series (i.e. i6, i7 ...),
it can still be called iSeries.

2) AS/400 connotes green-screen, i.e. 'legacy' technology.  iSeries connotes
new technologies (Web, SQL, Java ...).  That is industry and IBM direction
and should be our (iSeries professionals) direction as well.

You know what they say, "if two people say it, it must be the truth" :)
So let's keep calling it iSeries and educate our neighbors at those block
parties.  It'll stick eventually.

Just my 2 cents of course...

Elvis

-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: OS/400 i5/OS

Thats the very reason why the AS400 moniker is still with us and will never
die!

On 29/11/05, Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Not only that, but how easy of a catch word is i5/OS?  From a marketing
> perspective the name has to be catchy.  It has to have that
> stickiness factor to it that you can't let go.
>
>
>
> At 04:15 PM 11/29/2005 -0500, you wrote:
> >You know its about the name rolling off your tongue, and iSeries just
> does
> >not roll off your tongue.  AS/400 does, and while I hear people call it
> >both iSeries and AS/400, I hear the same people will call it either
> >depending on the conversation.
> >
> >
> >its not about the faithful changing what we call it, its about the
> >faithful believing that the iSeries is so much more then an AS/400, and
> >starting to take advantage of the new features and functions that are
> >coming with the operating system.  Notice, I didn't call that i5/OS or
> >OS/400.  Again, how easy is i5/OS to say?
> >
> >    Pete
> >
> >
> >Trevor Perry wrote:
> >
> >>Here is a flaw in our thinking... So few of us can actually call this
> our
> >>~i~Series. We still call it an AS/400. So another name change would
> still
> >>only be one - you would have to stop calling it an AS/400 and start
> >>calling it whatever is next.
> >>
> >>However, my prediction is that it will STILL be an ~i~series, since they
> >>are marketing the ~i~ brand so well!
> >>
> >>Now, if we can get everybody who calls it an AS/400 to start calling it
> >>an iSeries, we may be able to remove this stigma about "old" or
> >>"outdated" technology. Yes, the AS/400 is out of date, but the iSeries
> is
> >>the LATEST technology and the successor to the iSeries.
> >>
> >>So, here is the challenge. If WE - the faithful - can stop saying
> AS/400,
> >>maybe WE can turn the tide against the AS/400 bigots.
> >>
> >>
> >>The iSeries - not your grandfather's AS/400!
> >>
> >>
> >>----- Original Message ----- From: <dr2@xxxxxxxx>
> >>Subject: Re: OS/400 i5/OS
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>Yeah, like what this product line needs is YET ANOTHER name change!
> >>>
> >>>We've had more GM's than Steinbrenner's Yankees....and nobody seems to
> >>>know what a iSeries is....
> >>>
> >>>Oh well...
> >>>
> >>>Don in DC
> >>>
> >>>>I'm sure IBM will clear that all up with their next
> >>>>breathtaking announcement. Maybe a "brand new name"
> >>>>to make the product "unique" in the industry.
> >>>>
> >>>>I would like to know how much money was spent on the last
> >>>>couple of "name changes".
> >>>>
> >>>>Just think how much money could have been spent on actually
> >>>>selling the equipment.
> >
> >
> >
> >--