Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Hi:

The basic point of the rant about what "we" call ourselves is moderately 
well taken. However, "we" do not -- all -- work on System i5. This part of 
"we" works on an AS/400 running OS/400. I would love to work on a System 
i5 server running i5/OS (if that is the correct terminology this week), 
and with any luck will have that opportunity in the next year or two. 
There are a significant number of people on this list who are in the same 
situation as I am.

What are we supposed to say? "No, the System i5 does not have a many-year 
track record for reliability, it just came into being recently"? "No, 
i5/OS is not the latest in a long line of stable and useful operating 
systems, it is relatively new"? It think not. At least, I HOPE not.

Besides, if you bought an Oldsmobile ten years ago, it is still an 
Oldsmobile. It did not miraculously morph into a Pontiac or Saturn because 
of a General Motors product line announcement.

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin  -  630-754-2187
Manager, Computer Operations
dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

midrange-l-bounces+dmartin=moreycorp.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 12/07/2006 
10:59:36 PM:

[snip]

We work on System i - this is the family of servers which WERE AS/400 
servers, THEN iSeries servers, but are now System i5.

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