Re: Did we have another name change?

[ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I had finally started to use 'iSeries' in the last year or so... it takes a
while for these changes to stick.   I like the sticker idea...

                                                                       
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Tom,

This was my point at the Town Hall meeting at COMMON. I asked IBM to give
us
the tools so we can (a) become a community again, and (b) can call this
platform+OS a consistent name.

We have the name - System i - now, we need to come together as a System i
community. Are you willing to call your AS/400 a System i? Are you willing
to call you iSeries a System i?

I recently suggested that IBM give us stickers/labels to put on the front
of
our AS/400s and iSeries. This would include the AS/400 label and the words
"a System i server". Maybe then, we can SEE that it is part of the new
family, and our vernacular would change. One can only hope

Trevor
P.S. Here is my suggestion
http://www.angustheitchap.com/Angus/Blog/C99E992D-2517-4630-89FF-5051135D59BF_files/i.008.jpg



----- Original Message -----
From: <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Re: Did we have another name change?


> midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>   7. Re: Did we have another name change? (Trevor Perry)
>>
>>There have been only two name changes since 1988. How is that going too
>>far?
>>rEdiculous?
>
> Trevor:
>
> Generally, I agree. In fact, I almost wrote the same reply as you did and

> as I have in the past. But I realized that I almost missed the almost
> hidden question --
>
>>>   And, if we don't know
>>> what
>>> to call, how is the general public going to know what to call it, or
>>> even
>>> what "it" is?
>
> I'm not sure that the name change is the problem. As you said, this is
> only the second change in almost 20 years. The problem is the confusion
> among the users of the system.
>
> This is an area that IBM has failed in its approach. Somehow "we" are
> confused. IBM's inability to keep "us" clear in our own minds is
regularly
> evident.
>
> Tom Liotta

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