Re: Happy i5/OS 2008?

[Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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