Re: Did we have another name change?

["Trevor Perry" <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lou, ~I~ am not IBM or responsible for the name change.


Keith, Lou,

AS/400 is certainly much OLDER technology than a System i5. It is ironic 
that the rest of the industry thinks an AS/400 is outdated, but we don't. 
System i5 is definitely NOT an alias for AS/400.

There is a lot of new technology and tools available to us. I offer you ILE. 
The percentage of iSeries and AS/400 shops who actually use ILE is VERY 
small. And that technology is 12 years old. Yes, we need new underwear....

Trevor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Carpenter"
Subject: Re: Did we have another name change?


> It appears IBM subscribes to a corollary of (2).
> (2a) A new name implies new technology.
> (2b) The newer the name, the newer the technology.
>
>
> Lou Forlini wrote:
> > At 3:43 PM -0500 4/10/06, Trevor Perry wrote:
> > > Everybody around here calls it an AS/400 because of (1) familiarity, not
> > > grammar, and (2) they are afraid of learning new technology - and 
> > > calling it
> > > the old name, and using it the old way means no change of underwear.
> >
> >     I certainly plead "guilty" to (1), but I laugh openly at the
> > generalization you proceed to at (2).  I am not "afraid" of new
> > technology, but only weary of wasting resources on learning your
> > constantly-changing aliases.
> >
> >     Regards,
> >
> >     - Lou Forlini
> >       Software Engineer
> >       System Support Products, Inc.