Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch -- MIDRANGE-L

While everyone out there thinks "AS/400 is old" and you call it an "AS/400",then no one will buy a NEW one, since what you are working on is "old".

----- Original Message -----From: "Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>

To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

I don't understand why using the old name will guarantee a lack of sales.
And understand - I'm not a marketing person - I'm a technical person.

On 12/8/06, Trevor Perry <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


The name does not help sales. Sarcasm might. But using the old name will
guarantee LACK of sales..


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch


> Well...certainly an easy fix. We make double darn sure that everyone
uses
> the correct name...and sales will go through the roof. YAAAAY!!!!
>
> On 12/8/06, Haase, Justin C. <justin.haase@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> No, but you can't buy a new Olds today.  And that's the point -
>> consultants and even IBMers go out to the field and say loudly "The

>> AS/400!" and then mumble "...or iSeries or System i or whatever...">> And

>> then quickly make themselves feel better by rocking back and forth and
>> screaming "It's the AS/400!!!! YAAAAAY!!!!"
>>
>>
>> --
>> Justin C. Haase - Solution Engineer
>> IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
>> Kingland Systems Corporation
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darrell A Martin
>> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 9:45 AM
>> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
>> Subject: Re: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch
>>
>> Hi:
>>
>> The basic point of the rant about what "we" call ourselves is
moderately

>> well taken. However, "we" do not -- all -- work on System i5. This>> part

>> of "we" works on an AS/400 running OS/400. I would love to work on a
>> System

>> i5 server running i5/OS (if that is the correct terminology this>> week),

>> and with any luck will have that opportunity in the next year or two.
>> There are a significant number of people on this list who are in the
>> same situation as I am.
>>
>> What are we supposed to say? "No, the System i5 does not have a
>> many-year track record for reliability, it just came into being
>> recently"? "No, i5/OS is not the latest in a long line of stable and
>> useful operating systems, it is relatively new"? It think not. At
least,
>> I HOPE not.
>>
>> Besides, if you bought an Oldsmobile ten years ago, it is still an
>> Oldsmobile. It did not miraculously morph into a Pontiac or Saturn
>> because of a General Motors product line announcement.
>>
>> Darrell
>>
>> Darrell A. Martin  -  630-754-2187
>> Manager, Computer Operations
>> dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> midrange-l-bounces+dmartin=moreycorp.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on
>> midrange-l-bounces+12/07/2006
>> 10:59:36 PM:
>>
>> [snip]

>> > We work on System i - this is the family of servers which WERE>> > AS/400

>> > servers, THEN iSeries servers, but are now System i5.
>>