RE: Happy i5/OS 2008?

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yes.

> Is it too late to cast my vote for "Silverlake"?
>
> :-))
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> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 1:22 PM
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> Subject: Re: Happy i5/OS 2008?
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> And to take my premise of "nothing wrong with old names, so long as what
> they refer to isn't changed completely beyond recognition," consider one
> of the world's most popular automobiles: the Toyota Camry. Toyota has
> been using that model name for vehicles of roughly the same size and
> appearance for twenty seven years. Nobody's going to mistake a 2008
> Camry for a 1980 "Celica Camry," but they're going to see a family
> resemblance, and they're bloody well supposed to see one.
>
> If IBM had been serious about a name change as an image improvement,
> they would have come up with something a lot catchier, and a lot easier
> to GOOGLE on, and they would have stuck with it.
>
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