Re: IBM investment in i

Trevor,

Well, I hope you're right. So far the three amigos
(those little OS icons) aren't exactly staging a major
attack on the marketing front, though I have spotted
them on a few IBM web pages. Too bad there's an 'I'
in AIX and an "i" in Lunux too. As long as we aren't
the one destined to be airbrushed out of the family
portrait after a future divorce. ;-)

Goodnight, Irene

...Neil

--- Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Neil,

I don't consider that IBM i running on the same
platform as AIX or Linux as
the "mainstreaming" event. What is mainstream is the
fact that IBM has
promised that the three OSs will be featured with
equal icon representation
in the marketing. Whenever you see AIX, i and Linux
together, you are seeing
a strong change in marketing. When Power Systems are
'sold', the three icons
will be represented together. IBM reps are going to
have to answer the
question "what is this i for business?". Prospects
are going to wonder why
you use "i for business" and not AIX or Linux.

However you look at it, we have always complained
that we were the
stepchild. Now we are in the family portraits. And
people are going to be
talking about IBM i like they have not done in a
long time. What an
opportunity we have to take our "platform" into the
future.

C'mon irene!

Trevor

On 5/7/08 11:11 PM, "Neil Palmer"
<neilpalmer400mr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Trevor,

Just playing devils advocate here, because I KNOW

you

are dedicated to ________
(fill in the blank from the list:)
AS/400
eServer iSeries
iSeries
eServer i5
System i5
System i
i
irene

and I really DO appreciate/envy your enthusiasm.

But (apart from the fact i5/OS, AIX & Linux have

been

running on the same hardware for years) if one

could

say IBM has brought "i" to the mainstream because

it

now runs on the same hardware platform as AIX &

Linux,

could one not also say IBM brought OS/2 to the
mainstream because it ran on the same hardware
platform as Windows?

;-)


...Neil

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