Re: Software Vendors (And US too) - A small rant

[Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert,

You seem to have fallen prey to some weird sense of time. It has been
(next month), FIVE years since the name change. In I.T., that is an
eternity - and way longer than a week.

And, we have seen charts supporting that through 2025:
http://ibmsystemsmag.blogs.com/you_and_i/2012/12/future-of-ibm-i-caac-buzz.
html

It's probably time to pack up that old and tired myth and send it to the
AS/400 cave. While your clients use old branding, you don't need to. If
you say "IBM i" like it is the current branding, they will get used to it.
If not, don't argue, just persist with the correct branding. You can
support the platform, even if they don't care to.



On 12/11/12 9:31 PM, "Robert Munday" <rwmunday@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But with IBM changing the name as often as they have and do, how is an
> independent rent-a-programmer like me supposed to keep up?  I still have
> clients who call it "the 400".  They pay the bills so they are free to
> call it anything they desire.  I personally use "iSeries".  My most
> recent client uses the term "iSeries".  If I were selling software in the
> example you site, then I would need to know and use the "IBM Name Of The
> Week"... whatever that is this week.  I personally don't know.
>
>
>
> Robert Munday
> Munday Software Consultants
> Montgomery, AL
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> > From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Dec 11, 2012 6:29 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: Software Vendors (And US too) - A small rant
> >
> > I know of a company including several persons there personally including
> > the person who made the mistake. They were asked by a huge potential
> > customer what their systems ran on. The response: "AS/400". The customer
> > immediately and finally closed discussions with: "Yeah well IBM quit
> > making those over a decade ago so you clearly don't have the ability to
> > support our needs with that." Game over. No explanations, backpedaling,
> > clarification, could help. The potential customer believed it was a
> > mindset.  What does the company really use? IBM i 7.1 on POWER7.  Oops.
> >
> > Names matter.
> >
> >     - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
> >
> > On 12/11/2012 5:06 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.
> > > Clearly if you don't know the name of the system your working on I
> > > cannot trust your software.  Most of the vendors monitor this list and
> > > don't hand me the line:  "That's what our customers call it....."
> > > Don't
> > > correct the customer but always use the correct terminology when you
> > > are
> > > speaking and guess what, they will start using it too....
> > >
> > > What brought this rant on?  Three calls today from vendors asking if I
> > > would like to talk about their iSeries or AS/400 products.....  Geesh..
> > > Now I'm starting to sound a bit like Trevor without the accent.....
> > >
> > > I'll be quiet now.
> >
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