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Those of us who know and love the system are pretty knowledgable about the
names (past and current). I don't think anyone else can be expected to get
the grasp of it and to me it all seems very detrimental to the product's
identity through the years. David's point about the effect it has on
'searchability' is a good point and that same concept carries over for
other concepts also... it affects the way companies document their setups,
refer to their equipment, and it can't help software vendors push their
solutions very much either (those are just the annoyances that come to mind
quickly). It's been hard enough over the years to show why this box is so
uniquely valuable without the changing label. I don't get it... Do the
same marketing consultants who drive the name changes also give ideas for
the vague TV commercials?
Bruce Vining
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IBM System i5 is the current product line name. IBM System i is the
current family name which includes AS/400, eServer iSeries, eServer i5,
and System i5.
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A co-worker just forwarded me an email he got inviting him to a ISV
breakfast meeting for "System i" ISV's.
Did I miss something again? I thought it was "System i5"?
As useless as the change from AS400 to iSeries was, I *LIKED* iSeries.
It was easy to search on.
How can the market get interested on a system when the name keeps
getting changed ... and inconsistently at that.
<sigh>
david
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