Re: new name POWER? I give up, and will call it the AS/400!

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What?!?!  What do you mean the name is changed.  That can't be true?


jde iSeries wrote:
> a Techtarget story about Darrell Martin, manager of computer operations,
> Morey Corp, "Martin has a different reason – for some time, he's tried to
> train everyone in his company to stop calling the platform AS/400, OS/400,
> and iSeries and to start calling it System i and i5/OS. With the new change,
> he's giving up.
>
> "I was the only evangelist in our whole unit," he said. "We've got four
> dedicated programmers on the iSeries or the IBM i or whatever it's called
> today. I was the one saying, 'We need to get used to the new terminology.'
> When the announcement came out, I threw my hands up and said it's not worth
> it."  So now the terminology is shifting in reverse.  "I'm calling it the
> AS/400 again," he said. "Because that's what our users have been doing. It's
> just not worth it. It's an AS/400."
>
> *http://preview.tinyurl.com/47v32h*
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> *http://search400.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid3_g
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> _3509511&uid=4823127*
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