What, they renamed the OS again? Guess I wasn't paying attention and
only picked up that info from Tommy's post.
So much for "just call it the i5/OS because that won't change." I
tried.
Though generally when I talk to people who work with computers but not
with the "i" (no, not Apple's "i"), it goes a lot like this.
Them: "What do you work on?"
Me: "i5/OS."
"Huh?"
"System i?"
?
"iSeries?"
?
"As/400."
"Oh, well why didn't you say that to start with."
Kurt Anderson
Application Developer
Highsmith Inc
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 11:48 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IBM investment in i
M$ has a lock on the *PC* market...not in the business *main* processing
market. that's still where they are gaining a foothold but haven't
quite made it yet. so yes, we as a community *AND* IBM *AND* BPs need
to promote the OS. with the new name IBM i, it may even be easier to do
so.
CIOs and CTOs tend to enjoy adding "new" technologies to their
infrastructure...just because it's "new" and therefore *must* be
innovative and "cool". So folks let's put on our party hats and *DON'T*
mention "It's OS/400 (or i5/OS) with a new name" but rather "hey check
out this new OS...it's called IBM i".
Thanks,
Tommy Holden
From:
"Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
To:
"Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
05/07/2008 11:39 AM
Subject:
Re: IBM investment in i
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Recently I read Tom Watson Jr's book about IBM and his dad, T J
Watson.
IBM became great because T J Watson believed in sales. Everything he
and therefore IBM did was driven by a desire for sales. Today's IBM
is a far cry from what T J demanded.
profits are sky high at IBM. I think they figure that operating systems
and run time frameworks are not as profitable as middleware and end user
applications. They also dont want to compete where Microsoft is
strongest - operating systems, frameworks, languages.
-Steve
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