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Re: Did we have another name change?

Lou, ~I~ am not IBM or responsible for the name change.


Keith, Lou,
AS/400 is certainly much OLDER technology than a System i5. It is ironic that the rest of the industry thinks an AS/400 is outdated, but we don't. System i5 is definitely NOT an alias for AS/400.
There is a lot of new technology and tools available to us. I offer you ILE. The percentage of iSeries and AS/400 shops who actually use ILE is VERY small. And that technology is 12 years old. Yes, we need new underwear.... 

Trevor
----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Carpenter" 
Subject: Re: Did we have another name change?




It appears IBM subscribes to a corollary of (2).
(2a) A new name implies new technology.
(2b) The newer the name, the newer the technology.


Lou Forlini wrote:

At 3:43 PM -0500 4/10/06, Trevor Perry wrote:

Everybody around here calls it an AS/400 because of (1) familiarity, not
grammar, and (2) they are afraid of learning new technology - and calling it 
the old name, and using it the old way means no change of underwear.


    I certainly plead "guilty" to (1), but I laugh openly at the
generalization you proceed to at (2).  I am not "afraid" of new
technology, but only weary of wasting resources on learning your
constantly-changing aliases.

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.

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