RE: More ILE 101

That's more of that B.S. BMW-style marketing. 
If IBM had creative people in marketing we wouldn't be talking about this at
all. We all know that the Operating system is what people are busing on any
hardware platform. If they were creative they wouldn't have taken my advice
and changed the name of the Operating System to something they could market.
Instead they change the name of the hardware and people don't know what it
is any more.   FYI, my recommendation was to change OS/400 to something like
"Blue"

"Blue runs JDE"
"Blue runs Java"
"Blue runs Linux" ???
"Blue runs RPG"  (<g>)
"Blue runs [insert app name here]"
"Blue has never had a virus"
"Blue is secure, no really, it is."
etc.

And if BLUE wasn't/isn't your favorite choice for renaming OS/400, pick
something else that's easy to say and remember. 
-Bob Cozzi

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 8:15 AM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: More ILE 101


i5?  are you serious?

Does that mean I have to update my resume again?  that should be worth
another 5-10K a year, right?

;)

----original message--------
>
> I'm glad I'm not the only person who, after 6 years or so, still can't
find
> my way to call the damned thing an iseries - "the 400" comes out of my
> mouth 95% of the time.
>
> rick


you and about 72% of the IT industry.  It would appear that AS/400 as a
brand moniker has about a 72% brand recognition, second only in IBM land
to "thinkpad".

...and they think changing it to i5 is going to help?

oy!


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