Re: MSFT video demos Host Integration Server

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Beautiful...in the midst of the pedantic semantics, Gmail puts this ad
up when I was reading the message:

Tech Software
Synon (AllFusion:2E) consultants for over a decade.
www.techsoftinc.com

Timing couldn't be better...Google is your friend!

On 6/6/07, Trevor Perry <trevor@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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