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On 10/14/2010 11:24 AM, Don wrote:
Well...they establish a brand with the areas that they really want to
keep...ever heard of AIX?

Makes you wonder why they picked the name "i" for their operating system, doesn't it? It's a name upon which they cannot establish a brand:

1) Because it's one character long, and already a word, establishing a brand would be ridiculously difficult to begin with.

2) Because Cisco already owns the trademark on i/OS, and Apple is licensing it, and using the lowercase i for /everything/ (and was doing so before IBM was)

How could they possibly expect to build a brand with this name?! Or are they deliberately trying _not_ to?

Of course, this isn't a new discussion. I said the exact same thing when the dullards at IBM came up with the name "System i" in 2006. Then I repeated it when they came up with just "i" in 2008.

It's good to see that you guys are finally noticing.

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