Re: Calling names - System i5

[Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does that mean my 520 is:

IBM      (GM)
System i (Chevy)
i5       (Silverado)
520      (1500, ie, 1/2 ton)

I'm not trying to be funny, I really am getting more confused the more I 
read.

CRPence wrote:
>    The specific product, as the hardware server model, was branded a 
> System i5 server.  The family of hardware, inclusive of what would 
> previously have been referred to as any of S/3X, AS/400, iSeries, and 
> System i5, was branded /System i/.  So call the claims whatever you 
> like, I think the claims fit with what IBM had done.
>
>    That may even include an alluded emphasis\focus tending toward the OS 
> because with continued convergence into an effective System pi and now 
> i5/OS on blades, the hardware focus may finally be losing out to a more 
> OS-focus approach.  An approach that many alluded was more appropriate, 
> analogous to how Windoze was and still is using the same moniker 
> irrespective of its underlying hardware.  That focus clearly shows in 
> the conference naming, a common hardware chipset irrespective of form 
> factor and an OS, those listed at www.ibm.com/services/learning :
>
>   IBM POWER Systems Technical University featuring AIX and Linux 
> Chicago, Illinois, USA
>   IBM POWER Systems Technical University featuring i5/OS Chicago, 
> Illinois, USA
>
>   So....
>     Windoze on Intel, Dell server
>     i5/OS   on POWER, System i5 server
>     Linux   on POWER, System i5 server
>     AIX     on POWER, System i5 server
>     i5/OS   on POWER, System p5 server
>     i5/OS   on POWER, JS22 blade
>     AIX     on POWER, System p5 server
>     Linux   on POWER, System p5 server
>     Lx86    on POWER, System p
>
> Regards, Chuck