Re: MSFT video demos Host Integration Server -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: MSFT video demos Host Integration Server
From: Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:04:05 -0400
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Aha!! But they DID choose System i!!

The easy part is that "System i" is a brand name that includes the server
hardware that is currently called System i5, and the previous generations of
AS/400 and iSeries servers.

Branding! Marketing! Something programmers complain about, but apparently
remain uneducated about!

On 6/5/07 11:58 AM, "Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

They didn't choose a System i 19 years ago. They may have selected an
AS/400 in 1988 however.

words. EVERY one of them used the name "System i". One said (and I
paraphrase), "I chose the System i 19 years ago, because it was the best
platform on the planet. I was right!"

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