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Trevor Perry wrote:
Religious rant or not, you cannot attract people to a platform that is no
longer being sold. If you keep advocating for whatever the platform USED to
be, you will not maintain credibility. I bet that IBM guy said the "AS/400"
was sunsetted, because a couple of years ago, there was no System i. And,
the "AS/400" has been sunsetted.
Undoubtedly, there are people at IBM who never liked the S-3 or any of
its progeny, and would like to "sunset" the whole midrange concept. THAT
is the only plausible explanation I've ever seen for IBM insisting on
constant renaming.
Consider that WinDoze Vista bears little resemblance (other than being a
ridiculous processor-and-memory-hog) to the DOS GUI add-on of over two
decades ago, yet it's still called WinDoze. Likewise, this year's model
of Macintosh bears very little resemblance (other than in ease of use,
and being designed around a GUI from the naked hardware on up) to the
original Mac 128 of almost a quarter century ago, and yet Apple still
calls it a Macintosh.
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