Cause ya can't find 'em. Google is not a friend to the System i. (Or
was not previously. It seems to be much more i friendly today.) In past
searches for System i Google would search for "System" and ignore the
"i". "AS/400" was just as bad, the slash would get ignored and you
would find all manner of pages with "AS" and "400" in them. Hence the
plethora of "AS400" jobs.
Who knew that there was a highway in California called I5?
www.ihoz.com/I5.html
I'm sure that the members of some committee within IBM get paid a lot of
money to develop these names, but after all these name changes couldn't
someone have suggested something a little more search engine friendly?
Or don't those people use the internet?
I'm confidant that there is a world market for at least five System i's,
but we've already got ours, we need to sell them to someone new.
Regards,
Scott Ingvaldson
System i Administrator
GuideOne Mutual Insurance Company
-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Perry [
mailto:trevor@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 7:10 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: MSFT video demos Host Integration Server
Walden,
It is true that the present is mired with the names of our heritage. And
sure, when looking for people who can work on System i, we must
recognize that most of them will have AS/400 on their resume. Why can't
we look for "System i developers with AS/400 skills"??
Trevor
On 6/6/07 3:07 PM, "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
P.S. Walden, why are you looking for an AS/400 job? They haven't sold
one of
those this century :-)
Wise guy huh? :) I know you're kidding, but seriously, if I was
posting a job and looking for an RPG programmer and I listed the job
looking for people on the i5 I just seriously limited the scope of
potential candidates. Now, you might argue that if the RPG programmer
doesn't know the machine is now called an i5 I don't want him, but the
point is, when we're marketing to the existing customer base we're
somewhat forced to call it an AS/400, not because that's what it is,
but because that's what they call it.
-Walden
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