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If you listened to the webcast yesterday you may have noticed that in the
midst of the big System/i5 announcement even one of the IBM developers
referred to it as AS/400. We all had a good laugh when we heard it, and he
probably got chewed out later for saying it, but hey, it could be worse.
It was a good name that had good marketing when it first came out. If even
the IBMer's refer to it as an AS/400 then they need to work on an internal
marketing effort if they want the external one to go anywhere. If not,
then they should save the money, keep calling it an AS/400, and we can stop
arguing.
Dave Parnin
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Sure I can define one name - XT. After all some people still call an I5
an AS/400, so why shouldn't we refer to the latest souped Wintel Server by
IBM or Lenovo as an XT still?
Rob Berendt
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Trevor Perry wrote:
> Are you unaware of the plethora of tools that can present a GUI or web
> interface to a user withOUT 5250 requirements? System i5 has a legacy
(yes)
> of 5250, but it is not the only user interface any more.
I think that's the problem. There are a bunch of tools.
> And, can you define "these name changes"? The AS/400 was introduced in
1988,
> the iSeries in 2000, the System i5 in 2006. 18 years is a long time in
IT,
> and the System i5 is significantly different than an AS/400.
As it's been said by others, you can refer to MS's product as Windows
and the variety of unix/linix versions as such (*nix). But can you
define one name that for the box you are referring to ?
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