Re: Happy i5/OS 2008?

Rob,

I am not arguing. I am asking why......

And no, I do not think a Google search should be a preventative measure
against a new name. Google does not take long to pick up links - it is more
about how many of us are willing to USE the new name on the web. I would
blame the people who cannot keep their information UP TO DATE, rather than
Google.

Also, you say "stop thinking of it as an AS/400" and "I am not just talking
hardware", but you did not say the name of the "not just hardware". This is
where we all have to change. i5/OS (operating system aka not-just-hardware)
is what unites us, not AS/400 (just hardware).

Trevor



On 12/31/07 10:06 AM, "rob@xxxxxxxxx" <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Oh well, this is as good an argument as any for those of us working on New
Years Eve (as I can't wait to get out of here to get likkerd up and try
driving in the winter storm heading our way).

I, too, try to push the use of the new names. Got a real problem with the
separation of the two, as in "System i". That's a bit harder to google,
and you'd think that google would be one of the top measures in this
internet age. Slashes in the name also are not search engine friendly.
Hence, why, when searching most people have dropped the slash in AS/400
for AS400. Why compound this with i5/os? How do I store this in:
<mettta name="keywords" content="STATUS USER GROUP FORT WAYNE IN INDIANA
IBM AS400 ISERIES I5">
(intentionally misspelled mettta so as not to make email readers think I
am sending html)

I agree that people do have to stop thinking of it as an AS/400. It is as
different as the early generations of that as it is from a S/36 or a S/38.
And I am not just talking hardware. The software on it has so changed.
Like lpars, networking, applications that people "assume" should be run on
other platforms like: DNS, Linux, etc.

Rob Berendt