Re: RD Power v7.5

JDPi,

The name of the current product is Rational Developer for Power Systems
Software. It is the same product for i and for AIX, and it only has one
name.

Your article gave it the name: IBM Rational Developer for Power Systems
Software V7.5 - RPG and COBOL Development Tools for i
In that article, you complained about the length of that name. What you had
identified as the name was not the name, but one of the RD Power FEATURES. I
expect under that case, you calling the feature "RD Power for i" might be
close, but you are still spreading some major misinformation.

I would not expect that I would know the future name of the product, since I
don't have an NDA, nor have I been told, nor would I pre-disclose. As for
some IBMer internally calling it RDp - which may seem to you like it was the
'working' name, I would expect this is simply them abbreviating it for their
own personal expediency and it does not represent IBM as a company. When
talked about publicly, as was done last week at the WMCPA conference, it is
referred to as RD Power when its full name is not used.

Trevor



On 3/20/10 10:14 PM, "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Trevor Perry wrote:

The product is not RDP. At IBM, p stood for the hardware running AIX. The
brand is Power, and this is not abbreviated to p. Ever.

The working name of the version to be released is RDp 7.6. Ask someone
working on it and report back.

Whatever Joe deems to make up is not the name. Joe calling it something that
IBM is not calling it, does not help. It just adds to the confusion.

What would be confusing is calling the product for the i the same thing
as the name of the product for AIX.

THAT would be confusing.

Joe