Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

["Trevor Perry" <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Darrell,

We ALL work on a System i - that is the family name. It is inclusive of 
AS/400, iSeries and System i5 servers.

Has it been that hard to read these messages?
IBM = company
System i = family/brand
System i5 = server

Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darrell A Martin" <DMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 9:44 AM
Subject: 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