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On 4/3/08, Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Heck, you don't have to Google it. Just try to use it in a sentence
without putting quotes around it, or taking the time to explain it every
time you use the word.
"ibm i" and "system i" both return relevant hits in google.
the name has a logical sense to it. i has been a consistent part of our
name since as400 was dropped. and the 5 in i5/OS does not have a descriptive
purpose. i/os is a logical candidate for the name, but that is taken by
cisco. there is no longer system i hardware, so the "system" part of the
name no longer applies. IBM i has some minimalist appeal. Maybe it will make
more sense if/when AIX is renamed as IBM p and z/OS becomes IBM z.
a question I have is why is IBM i so much more expensive per core on the
JS22 than the JS21?
I dont think the name and advertising matters much. What is important is if
the OS will be modernized or not. We need 64 byte pointers, a .NET like ILE,
SQL procedures that better integrate with the system, and a Java or C# like
language as a replacement for RPG.
-Steve
midrange.com
