Re: horse's (mouth?)

["Buck Calabro" <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> OK. Now I've read the official IBM announcement about
> eServer i5 and i5/OS, so now I can express my
> disappointment that we just went through the
> exercise of renaming things and re-educating everybody
> to "eServer iSeries" for absolutely no reason.

I think the general idea is not that IBM are re-naming System/38 and
CPF and The Database Without A Name (which is how I still think of
it!), but they are introducing a new machine and a new OS.  New, in
the same way that Dell and Compaq create new models of their PCs
despite them all running some version of an 8088 compatible Intel
processor and a Windows 95 compatible Microsoft operating system.  IBM
are keeping the midrange alive by creating new models which supercede
their predessors.

S/38
AS/400
iSeries
i5

All different boxes, packaging, colours and names.  Yes, WE think of
them as one long evolution of the same machine, but that hasn't been
working too well in the marketplace.  So don't educate people that i5
is a System/38 with a new nameplate: tell them that it's the newest
edition to the midrange fleet.

I think that's the message IBM want us to take to the streets.
  --buck