Re: Food for Thought

Go ahead, Trevor. Fit 'IBM i on Power Systems - with a strong heritage of AS/400, iSeries and System i' on your newest set of business cards.

I hesitate to use the GM analogy, but gads, man! How can people talk about a product when there isn't even a broad understanding of what the nameplate is?



Trevor Perry wrote:

Steve,

I went to a local user group recently, and while fewer people call it the
AS/400, they are still a majority. iSeries is the second choice. How is
reporting of that statistic full of doom+gloom?

BTW, the System i is also no longer sold by IBM.

How about: ?

Trevor



On 11/18/08 10:38 AM, "sjl" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Trevor wrote:
Because the current users of the IBM i are telling them that it is an
AS/400.
And, everyone knows... an AS/400 is old.


Trevor -

Not everybody. It seems to me that /you're/ the one full of gloom and doom.
Even though I don't work on one, I refer to the IBM midrange product as
'System i'.

...and then when someone says to me 'System i?', I then have to educate them
that it is the successor to the AS/400 and the iSeries.

- sjl

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