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Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

We do! Anil Menon told us at COMMON Spring 2006 that the name was changed so we could stop focusing on name changes and focus on a brand. And the words (a decade) were used. What we need to get used to is the letter "i" - it appears that will be with us for a long time..
----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Mac" <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch



Do we have any idea how long (months, years, decades) that it will be
called System i, before IBM changes the name again?


No one knows about System i - yet it is the best
platform on the planet. Why don't they know? Because we keep calling it an
AS/400 - something from last century
I know of a HUGE number of people who refer to Windows ... whatever version 
as plain Windows, just as lots more people refer to THE OS not the OS and
its version #.


Does anyone know of anyone using Windows XP but refers to it as Windows
95?

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