I used to agree that "System i" was a terrible name for search engines,
but they have gotten better.
Today:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4SUNA_enU
S246US247&q=system+i
Gives you this, all but two entries on the first page are actually
System i related.
IBM System i - Midrange servers including iSeries and AS/400IBM System i
(iSeries, AS/400) midrange servers. An all-in-one platform with proven
solutions, built-in security, and unlimited potential.
www.ibm.com/systems/i/ - 46k - Cached - Similar pages
IBM System i hardwareIBM System i hardware - Review a list of System i
and earlier iSeries models features and benefits designed to reduce
complexity, streamline your ...
www.ibm.com/systems/i/hardware/ - 47k - Cached - Similar pages
[ More results from www.ibm.com ]
IBM System i - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe IBM System i
(formerly known as iSeries, AS/400, and Application System/400) is a
minicomputer platform produced by IBM. It was officially introduced as
...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS/400 - 47k - Cached - Similar pages
System iNetwork (formerly iSeries Network)Online version of the System
iNetwork Publication Quality content events and educational material
Formerly iSeries Network.
www.systeminetwork.com/ - 46k - Cached - Similar pages
Broadcasting System DetailsThe BBC-designed Teletext system is known in
some quarters as World Standard Teletext. There is an enhanced version
known as Fastext which defines four ...
www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/WorldTV/broadcast.html - 10k - Cached -
Similar pages
System i PortalFrom the System iNetwork DB2 Forum: "I used to be an
Oracle developer, then a SQL Server developer, then a Postgres
developer, and now I'm in a new job (18 ...
www.systemiportal.com/ - 22k - Cached - Similar pages
System i PlanetIn two tier client/server architectures, the user
interface is placed at user's desktop environment and the database
management system services are usually ...
planet.midrange.com/ - 113k - Cached - Similar pages
IS-100 Introduction to Incident Command System, I-100ICS 100,
Introduction to the Incident Command System, introduces the Incident
Command System (ICS) and provides the foundation for higher level ICS
training ...
training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is100.asp - 6k - Cached - Similar pages
IBM and Zend PHPIntroducing the next generation of IBM's leading
integrated business system for small and mid-size companies, the IBM
System i5 with innovative new ...
www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/php/ - 26k - Cached - Similar pages
IBM System i IP Telephony and Unified CommunicationsWith the System i IP
Telephony and Integrated Collaboration solutions, companies have
flexible options to reduce costs, boost productivity, ...
www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/solutions/iptelephony/ - 34k - Cached - Similar
pages
Regards,
Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
Fiserv Midwest
-----Original Message-----
From: Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 9:59 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Happy i5/OS 2008?
why CAN'T we blame IBM for not thinking of a more usable and searchable
name? how can we DO anything about that?....simple we can't!
as to being lazy....using names that people will not be able to easily
find information about actually discourages them more than using
iseries, i5, or as/400. am i advocating their use...to some degree
maybe so...only to allow the decision makers to find out more about the
platform. i generally steer them to i5 or iseries. and as far as the
newbies...i was referring to IBMs continuation of using as400 in the
java toolkit. there's no where (at least to my knowledge) where
connections, etc to the system are referred to anything other than
as400. is that something WE can fix?
again no is the answer. we have to use what IBM gives us ... we have no
choice. yes we can all petition, scream, etc at IBM but will it truly
affect change? i don't think so. i believe in the system (regardless
of it's moniker) but google really has nothing to do with the naming
choices of any company other than their own...so we do we have that IS
responsible for these things? IBM that's who.
I'm not absolving my responsibility nor or others here. we are stating
proven facts in the real world...not the world as you see it from behind
your rose-colored glasses. i agree with alot of what you say as far as
the system, but this is one subject where i live in the real business
world and you seem to live in a virtual "utopia"...
in a perfect world, IBM would have given the system a better, more
searchable name... the "i" in System i just isn't that search friendly
and therefore less visible to the decision-makers in the real world.
where do the decision-makers hear the name...from us, if we are the only
readily available source of information on the system then anything
windows, linux, etc related will overrun the system for good...why
because they can more easily, readily find more info without having to
dig through 1000s of hits on <insert your favorite search engine here>
Thanks,
Tommy Holden
Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>
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12/31/2007 09:36 AM
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Re: Happy i5/OS 2008?
Tommy,
The major problem we have is that it is easy to blame IBM, and therefore
we
can absolve ourselves of responsibility and sit on our bums and do
nothing.
It is obvious that approach smacks of laziness.
It is time for us to DO something, and stop blaming Google and IBM.
And it is not about convincing newbies that it is old or new. It is
about
convincing the world out there that we are NEW. We cannot do that if we
use
names that refer them to OLD technology.
Trevor
On 12/31/07 10:26 AM, "Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
your luck is better than mine....people love Google...if they can't
find
"System i" at the top of the list...you've lost 'em. but if i say
iseries
or AS/400...they google and get tons of hits. really i think the
blame
here resides entirely with IBM. they should have done more thinking
about
these things before they slapped the latest moniker on the system.
just
a
side note....ever use the java toolkit for the system....everything in
it
references as400. convince a newbie (that most likely eats, breathes,
etc
java) that it's on the "old" technology with that...
Thanks,
Tommy Holden
midrange.com
