Re: MSFT video demos Host Integration Server

Ron,

Public perception is that the AS/400 is OLD. Period. Ask ANYONE outside our
community. We cannot be that narrow that we cannot see how we are perceived.

Now, take that "OLD" a LONG WAY, as you suggest, and more and more
Window-bigoted CIOs and DP managers will REMOVE the AS/400 to make way for
something that is NOT OLD.

If we have a System i, then WE know it is our beloved AS/400, but the public
perception does not think System i is OLD.

And yes, it is marketing. And, as we know, it is up to US to market this
better. Why is the public perception currently thinking the AS/400 is OLD?
Because we LET IT! We keep calling it by its old name. We keep building OLD
applications (eg. 5250). We keep using OLD tools (eq. PDM). It is our fault
we have this public perception, and instead of doing something about it, we
sit around and call it an AS/400.

I say it is time to change!

Trevor


On 6/5/07 11:27 AM, "Ron Adams" <rondadams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Very true, but public perception goes a long way, and for the most part, the
public, and many executives don't care about the technical changes. To them,
it still looks like and acts like the well-known brand name of AS/400. So,
you could say the iSeries is different, but still the same. The S/38, while
it was a great machine for its time, wasn't well-known, so it never became
engrained.

Mostly, this equates to a Marketing issue. The Disney company suffers with
this as do many other companies. Numerous times I've heard people refer to
Dreamworks or almost any other animated flick as a "Disney" film. The same
thing happens with the identies of their domestic parks, people confuse
Disney World and Disneyland all the time, but they are drastically
different. But, the general public could care less.

Ron Adams