RE: Software Vendors - A small rant -- MIDRANGE-L

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"The mainframe".

That cuts through the noise and chaff. :-)

Paul Nelson
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Draper
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 4:31 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Software Vendors - A small rant

So, pray tell, what do YOU call it?

J

On 12/11/2012 2:28 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

On 12/11/12 2:06 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

Note to software vendors: If you want me to consider your software for
the IBM i operating environment running on Power Systems, please do not
call it, iSeries, AS/400, System i, or my personal favorite System/38.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

-- Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene ii

And more to the point, if they're calling it AS/400, then it's probably
because they've been writing for it since before IBM started
Mickey-Mousing with the name!

--
JHHL

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