Re: RD Power v7.5

The product is RDP. The "i" part is a feature of the product, no longer
the product itself. (Although it's hard to see that distinction because
the AIX C and COBOL tools aren't released yet).


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From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta [joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 7:57 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RD Power v7.5

Trevor Perry wrote:

I would like to ask all of you a favor. Since we all carry on about naming
from IBM, why is it that some of us have decided to obfuscate the process,
and call products from IBM by the WRONG name?

The product to which you refer is called RD Power - long name is IBM
Rational Developer for Power.

Please, stop calling it names.. Propagating poor/bad naming will only lead
to more confusion, more slams against IBM, more slams against the platform.
It is important that if you are loud in the industry, you should not be loud
~and~ spreading FUD. It is important that if you consider you support the
platform that you not spread misinformation.

As I wrote in a recent article:

"The full name is Rational Developer for IBM Power Systems: RPG and
COBOL Development Tools for the i. I can't even figure out an acronym
for that mess. I'm going to stick with RDPi until further notice. The
similarity to the old RDi acronym is intentional; RDPi is very much a
rebranding of the RDi tools, although of the bits they've added, a
couple are absolutely essential to ongoing i development."

RD Power isn't nearly enough, especially since there will be versions
for AIX and whatever. RDPi is a perfectly fine acronym. Rational
Developer for Power System, i version. Feel free to call it whatever
you want.

Joe


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