I'd really like to see IBM place their emphasis on the software rather than the hardware. Something like...
IBM i/OS 7.1 running on Power Systems 7, 6 and 5
IBM i/OS 6.1 running on Power Systems 7, 6 and 5
IBM i/OS 5.4 running on Power Systems 4 and 5
IBM i/OS 5.4.5 running on Power Systems 4 and 5
A suggestion for what it is worth. May be trademark issues now with Apple's iOS.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of CRPence
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 9:38 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: AS/400 Server.
On 10 May 2013 07:08, Anderson, Kurt wrote:
I always try to call our system what it is, a Power 7 running IBM i
7.1. However, the Cumulative PTF DVD we just got from IBM says this:
System i5
OS/400 Cumulative PTFs
V7R1M0...
Made me chuckle.
I will not offer what is my guess as to why nobody has changed the
first two mis-references, but...
The conspicuous difference between V#R#M# and V.R will probably
remain. The latter was purely a /marketing/ aspect; i.e. for naming
consistency in marketing: "IBM OS\product Version.Release". The OS
however, still maintains the V##R##M## information as integral data, and
the support\service identification [e.g. PTFs] mimics that pattern
specific to the OS. There is little reason that should ever change, and
some good reasons not to change that naming; e.g. there is no benefit
for consistency in cross-platform release naming, for the ability to
search technical databases of a single platform, especially for which
the dot-separated-digits do not provide for a well-formed search token
that is conspicuously not just some decimal number or even a date.
Of course that does not mean to imply they could not *additionally*
include the proper marketing name on the service-related labeling.
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