Re: AS/400 vs iSeries vs System i

Buck,

IBM certainly needs to market System i internally. That includes modifying
all the URLs that are misnamed - I use several that still include "eserver",
for example. They need to fix their support line staff's brains, too!

I like your suggestion, and will certainly tell as many IBMers as I can!

Until they fix it (yeah, right), iSociety has been working to bring all the
available System i information together. The website supporting this
iSociety push is www.systemiportal.com. I use their toolbar
(http://systemiportal.ourtoolbar.com) - it has several IBM links. The only
thing missing that I use all the time is:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/index.jsp and I will
be requesting that right now!

Trevor




On 6/6/07 11:44 AM, "Buck" <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I DO know where the name issues are. I have been pushing IBM - along with
MANY of us here - to refer to System i by its current brand name. Some time
back, I heard an IBMer say "I did not know it was not called an AS/400 any
more". Marketing the brand inside IBM is VERY important.

Trevor, I think you're doing the right thing. The time to advocate for
a better name is long past; we have what we have. IBM ought to push it
vigorously and so should we.

I do have a suggestion that you might be able to help with.

If I put www.iseries.ibm.com into my browser, I get redirected to
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/ Same thing for www.as400.ibm.com. I
honestly wish they'd put www.systemi.ibm.com in their list of web pages
that redirects. Remembering the www-03 page is a pain in the drain,
although www.ibm.com/systems/i redirects properly.

Whilst on the topic of web sites, THE web site I visit most often is
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/ ...which could use a redirect too.

Then again, I might be the only person left on the planet who types in
URLs...
--buck