RE: horse's (mouth?)

["Shannon ODonnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Never mind.  Two minutes after I asked this question, it was answered in the
webcast.  Yes, V5R3 will run on the old hardware. 


Shannon O'Donnell

 


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shannon ODonnell
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 11:06 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: horse's (mouth?)

 
So....I don't know if I heard definitively in the webcast...The new hardware
will ONLY run on V5R3 and above.... But... Will the OLD hardware be able to
run V5R3?  

In other words, if you want to upgrade to V5R3, do you also have to purchase
new hardware?


Shannon O'Donnell

 


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buck Calabro
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 8:15 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: horse's (mouth?)

> 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



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