Re: AS/400 Server

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You illustrate the problem perfectly Steve.  Ambiguous names lead to 
ambiguous results, whether it is an advertising campaign, a job 
reference, a Google search, or what to write on your business card and 
resume.  It is a marketing expert's nightmare.  Brand recognition has 
been diluted to the point of making the name of our platform a 
completely useless triviality.

I understand there is nothing we can do about this, but pretending this 
unnecessary mess is inconsequential, unpredictable, and unfixable is an 
even worse nightmare.

We have to live with the consequences of this marketing disaster but we 
do not have to pretend to like it.



On 5/7/2013 10:45 PM, Steve Landess wrote:
> What's in a name anyway?  If you Google 'Steve Landess', you'll find that he
> is a gay porn producer.
>
> ;-)
>
> -sjl
>
>
> "PaulMmn"  wrote in message
> news:mailman.3735.1367980644.7202.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx...
>
> Once we  got our user community used to referring to the system as
> the AS/400 (and it took years to make them forget the System/38),
> it's difficult to train them to call it the "iSeries," let alone
> Power System.  One step at a time!  I think calling it the iSeries is
> possible now... just barely!
>
> I think the difficulty is that the system runs the same old programs
> the same old way (well, a -faster- way), but to the users there was
> no difference, no change.  No learning new programs, no weeks of
> 'migration' fun, no loss of data (including printouts in the output
> queues they use like file cabinets)!
>
> So, as far as the users are concerned, the fact that we're running on
> a power system with a SAN running the disks instead of directly
> attached disk means nothing-- to them, nothing's changed!!
>
> --Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx