Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

["Trevor Perry" <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And one more...

You said:
>  The many name changes are just adding insult to injury.  But since
> they're not marketing it properly, positive brand recognition is not
> there anyway.

There have been NO name changes since January 2006. There were ultimately 
only 3 names - AS/400, iSeries (part of eServer family) and System i5. And 
that was over EIGHTEEN years - IT changes its diapers much faster than that. 
Now we have the System i family to cover all three platforms and bring the 
community together.

So, collectively, we must:
1) stop whining about ~ALL~ the name changes -
2) start calling this platform by its CURRENT family name - System i

It seems such a simple simple thing. Why is it that other IT developers can 
change and adapt fast, and we cannot. And it is just a brand name to 
change!! Maybe because we are dinosaurs at IT, we will become extinct soon?

As for brand recognition.. while we collectively call it AS/400, there will 
be ~no~ brand recognition. IBM has given us a name for the platform, and 
until WE recognize the branding, there is no future.

AS/400 is our heritage.
System i is our future.