Re: i Radio Spot

Doug,

There was no argument here - how did you read that?

As for your "whatever they call it" attitude, this is not trivial. We are
fast losing our identity as a community, and it is being fractured more and
more. The AS/400 is being replaced by Windows, etc.. and is also being
replaced by the occasional System i. iSeries is also a shrinking market.
Yet, people love to live in that past, because they simply cannot be
bothered to change their terminology. What a sad day for our community.

I agree with your futility statement. The argument is futile while our
community chooses to call the server something that it is not. Until we ALL
agree on what we have here, and stop calling it a name from the past, we
have no future. NO ONE will choose an AS/400 over Windows, no one will
choose an iSeries over Windows, but they MAY choose a System i. We MUST stop
calling it an OLD name, or we shall be painted with the OLD brush. Until we
stop painting with the OLD brush, we have NO future. Futility leads to
extinction, and while we live in our past, we head faster towards
extinction.

If you are not scared yet, you should be. Stop calling it an AS/400, or we
will have no System i.

NOW you have your argument. Not petty, but apparently futile. And this time,
you started it.

Trevor



On 10/31/07 4:55 PM, "Doug Palme" <DPalme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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I have to say that I have picked up a lot of extremely useful information
from numerous sources on here; from the always helpful Scott Klement to
Bob Cozzi to so many others that I would be foolish to start naming names
because someone is going to be left off the list.......ooops, I already
started naming names....do forgive me :)

I do have to say though, that these petty fights over the names, takes
away from the learning and informational aspect of this list.....I cannot
count the number of times that I have come close to unsubscribing from the
list because I hate being inundated with messages arguing over the same
things.

I am ** NOT ** choosing sides here, frankly you can call it a system I, an
iSeries, an As/400, hell you can call it "the big black box" for all I
care......what is important to me is what can the box do for me, what
services and features does it offer and how can that best help me perform
the functions I need it to perform.

It is an argument in futility.....and takes away from the value of the
list.

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