Re: Happy Birthday to the AS/400, iSeries, System i, IBM i

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Anne Lucas <alucas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm two days behind in reading midrange-l....just read a post (6/17)
with a comment about the birthday celebrating the "name" AS/400.

It's the technology, how it has evolved, and what it has become that we
celebrate! It is the product and it's capabilities that we celebrate.
Not the name!

There will be a celebration in Rochester and the appropriate IBM AS/400
thru IBM i executives will be on hand to help celebrate.

if recent reports in the trade media that R&D on the core OS has been
reduced by IBM to maintenance levels, that dampers the celebration for
me. I think the new hardware is great and cant wait for my BCS JS12
order to be shipped. I hope at the celebration there will be
announcements of the features planned for V6R2 and when to expect its
release.

Will G Glenn Henry be recognized as the person who created the
software and MI side of the system? ( Dr Frank, I understand, gets
credit for the SLS )

-Steve