Re: MSFT video demos Host Integration Server

[Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

It is just a matter of semantics. And of course, we are all good at that
here!

You bought a product that is now called AllFusion/2E. If you want to say
Synon, that is your choice, of course. But it is not Synon. If you say "When
I bought Synon", you cater only to the past and to the people who know. If
you said "when I bought AllFusion/2E", people will know what you are talking
about.

I bought into a platform that is now called System i. (If I say that, it
automatically includes AS/400, iSeries and i5.) If I say "When I bought an
AS/400", I cater only to the past. If I say "When I bought a System i", then
you cater to the present and our future!

~That~ is my point. Not what it was called at the time you bought your
server. Your AS/400 IS a System i, but everyone thinks AS/400 is 'old'.
Using "System i" gives us an opportunity to remove the stigma of 'old', and
educate on how great this platform is.

Regardless of ones pedantic preferences, you have a System i with
AllFusion/2E. When you bought your System i and your AllFusion/2E, they were
called something else.





On 6/6/07 11:49 AM, "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > They chose System i. The server at the time was called an AS/400, but
> the
> > brand ~is~ System i.
>
> Did they? At the time they bought it, there was no System i brand, so
> did they buy System i? What they bought is _now_ a System i, but they
> didn't buy a System i.
>
> Many years ago we purchases a Synon license. We purchased it from the
> company called Synon. Then many years later they were bought by Sterling
> and the product (and brand) renamed. And then Sterling was bought by CA
> and the product (and brand) renamed again (several times). Now, did I
> buy AllFusion/2E or did I buy Synon?
>
> -Walden