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Subject: Re: Complete re-vamp of IBM. No more System i division.
From: Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:10:11 -0400
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System i is a brand - including server(s) and OS.

System i5 is hardware.

Welcome back to 2007.

On 7/19/07 2:41 PM, "Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 7/19/07, Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It seems obvious that while there is no specific System i division inside
IBM, there is still a System i.

It seems that our future will be much more i5/OS related than hardware
specific, but since the Power6 System i 570 is on the way, the System i has
brand has some leverage yet.

the system i, the hardware platform? that is so 2005 thinking. The
IBM of today is in the business of making huge profits in tech
services and business software applications. The brand is db2,
websphere, IBM global services. The system p,z,i,x platform that db2
or websphere applications run on is an afterthought, a distraction
from the money and control to be had from locking an enterprise into
mega $million contracts to run IBM controlled application software and
services.

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