Re: Marketing question about AS/400 name

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John,

Interesting question and one that will get harder to answer over time.  
System i and System p hardware convergence is real.  They have been 
converging for some time and I wouldn't be surprised if the hardware 
lines completely blurred in the next year or so.  So that is going to 
leave you with i5/OS and OS/400 as the only links to a hardware platform 
that is no longer manufactured and won't be in the future. 

Best bet is "Software for System i (i5/OS) and all platforms that 
support i5/OS and OS/400"  *That* would truly be a bleeding edge 
statement and should remain true for the foreseeable future.

If you wanted to throw an asterisk next to OS/400 and in the footer put 
"* iSeries and AS/400" then that would have you covered.

My 2 cents worth.

I guess I should take a look at my own web sites and references to 
software and do a little revision as well.

Pete Helgren

jallen@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I know this topic has been discussed before (beaten to
> death) and I am not asking for a lengthy discussion about
> IBM and 
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> how they messed up with renaming the AS/400.
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> What I would like is suggestions from the IBM midrange
> community on the following:
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> We are in the process of rewriting our web site and all of
> our marketing material.
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> Currently we make reference to:
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> Developers of software for the AS/400
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> Our Software runs on the AS/400
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> Etc. Etc.
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> We would like to move forward to the 21st century now and
> market it with the    
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> correct name(s). We still have software that was installed
> years ago on an AS/400 and it still runs on those machines.
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> We have more up to date software for the newer Systems.
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> I would like to hear suggestions on the correct way to write
> the fact that we offer software for the AS/400, System i,
> iSeries, i5 etc. etc.
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> If you were in the market for software what would you like
> to see on a vendors web site when they are referencing the
> hardware their software runs on.
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> Please keep in mind that not all IBM customers are on the
> latest and greatest version of this platform.
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> Would it read:
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> .software for the AS/400, System i, iSeries, i5  
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> Thanks
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> John
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