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At 4:26 PM -0500 11/29/05, Don 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.
For my money, both iSeries and i5/OS are losers. "iSeries" - what is that? At first glance, it looks like something Steve Jobs unveiled at the last MacWorld show. Except that Steve has more sense than to use his "i" prefix with a word that only IBM could conceive of to graft onto it, "series". UGH! And whether IBM likes it or not, the public identifies the little "i" thing with iMac or iPod or whatever the next great Steve thing will be. Just for grins, I asked my son what he thought an iSeries was and he said something to hook 2 iPods together. He's already smarter than IBM's entire marketing department.
As for i5/OS, oh boy! Let's mix up some numbers and letters, upper and lower case, and throw a slash in there to make it look cool and we got ourselves a name! It's starting to look like "1337 sp33x" for crying out loud. And it will be good all the way up until when? It's time to change it for i6? Or will it finally morph to j6? Stupid nonsensical trash, and I'm sure they paid a pretty penny for it.
AS/400 and OS/400 were solid, believable names. Maybe outdated now, but WAY better than an alphabet soup of iSeries, eSeries, xSeries, and wtfSeries.
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Regards,
- Lou Forlini
Software Engineer
System Support Products, Inc.
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