Re: Intro to RDI (Rational Developer for i) webinar

Michael:

In 2006 I was at the Northeastern Users conference just west of Boston. An
AIRHEAD marketing chick from IBM
was there telling us that IBM would not change the name of IBM iSeries.

Questions or comments were asked for.

I stood up in front of 100 plus people and told the marketing person the
following.

==========================================

If God had used the same marketing plan for SEX that IBM is using for the
IBM iSeries or AS400
There might be four people in the room.

=========================================

Got a standing ovation.

Maybe we need to contact the people on the Thirty Five anniversary of the
IBM i.

I was sitting in the parking lot at IBM Rochester at the announcement. The
presentation
still had errors. The AS400 came of the System 38 platform not the System
36.

Was three products on the System 36 at the time.

Thomas Burrows

On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 7:35 AM Michael Quigley <MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

<Rant>

I hate to say it and I never thought I would see it, but the day is fast
approaching. IBM is working IBM i out of relevance. The new RDi install has
people so confused (myself included). I know the old IBM Installation
Manager method was way too involved, but simply trying to find where to
download the product took me a half a day. Then I still don't know if I
really have the licensing stuff needed to go with it. You've got zip-files
inside zip-files and more. Does any of this really make sense?

Don't get me wrong. I still believe IBM i is as powerful, capable,
versatile, and reliable as ever--and that all grows more so all the time.
But they've suppressed it in marketing for over 35 years. The presentation
and accessibility of the platform is not improving--rather it's going
downhill.

Then they do this webinar and lock it up so freaking tight. If I want to
download, install, and learn VS Code, it's so simple and straight forward.
(I won't go into my feelings on a lot of Microsoft's UIs. (Sometimes I feel
like I'm using a Junior High students project. The application is selected,
the cursor flashes in the right box, but type and the application
closes/minimizes whatever.) There are a multitude of raining options for
their products--all easily available and accessible.

I followed the link provided by Steve and I'm asked for my email address
and password. I supply my email address and it doesn't work with my
password or the one Steve provided. Good grief! I feel like Charlie Brown.

Thanks for putting up with my rant. I don't blame anyone for simply
deleting or reading past it.

Maybe somebody at IBM needs to rethink the trouble they put us through to
try to keep their product relevant at our place of employment. It can be
hard enough without all this....

</Rant>

Michael Quigley
Computer Services
The Way international
www.TheWay.org

-----Original Message-----
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date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 15:42:52 +0000
from: Steve Ferrell via WDSCI-L <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Intro to RDI (Rational Developer for i) webinar

Here is the link:

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Then use this PWD:
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Steve Ferrell
Fortra, the new face of HelpSystems

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