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

I tried Starbucks coffee once. It tasted like crap. Then I learned that they
outsource their IBM i work.

I've never crossed their threshold again.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trevor Perry
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:14 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Software Vendors (And US too) - A small rant

James,

You have an observation. Here's another. IBM have rebranded the OS to be
IBM i and it runs on Power Systems servers. That is not going to change in
the next decade, so what is the point of your observation?

Starbucks has rebranded 4 times in the last 40 years - will you stop
drinking their coffee because the brand has changed? IBM i is the current
OS, will you stop using it because it is not called AS/400? The difference
is, Windows8 does not run Win3.1 programs, yet IBM i can still run your
old AS/400 applications.



On 12/12/12 11:38 AM, "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 12/12/12 5:15 AM, Trevor Perry wrote:

There have been 4 rebrands in the last 25 years.

And WinDoze? Zero rebrands (plenty of variations, but nothing dropping
the base name, even though WinDoze 8 doesn't look remotely like WinDoze
1.0) in the last 27 years.

And Macintosh? Nothing but variations on Mac, with both "Mac" and
"Macintosh" remaining generically valid for the platform as a whole, in
the last 28 years, even though it's gone through two hardware
architecture changes (68000 --> PowerPC --> Intel) and a software
architecture change (from a homebrew proprietary OS like nothing else in
the world to a fork of BSD).

Linux has been Linux for over 20 years, BSD has been BSD for 35, and
Unix has been Unix for over 40.

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