From: Trevor Perry
AS/400, iSeries and System i are all names of servers. If you are
referring
to something (an OS) that is running on a Power blade as an AS/400, won't
that cause confusion?
And no, I call it i5/OS, no matter whether it runs on AS/400, iSeries, i5
or System i.
Okay, Happy New Year everyone. I'll weigh in on this, but only briefly.
While I don't agree with *THE* name, I agree with Trevor's position that we
need *A* name that we all use consistently.
I've had problems over the years with the name switches and the search
engine insanity and the fact that Word wants to capitalize the "i" in System
i (I had to backspace and retype just to get this sentence in). But the
reality is we need to call our platform something, and AS/400 ain't it.
Like Trevor, I've moved towards i5/OS wherever appropriate, and when I talk
about a machine, I call it almost exclusively a System i, although I'll use
iSeries when talking to customers with long histories in the midrange. It
seems that in the last few years, the iSeries name has finally replaced
AS/400 among those who actually USE the machine. Meanwhile developers,
publications and others in the industry have adopted System i pretty well.
What I find funny is the use of "AS/400" by end users. In fact, in my
recent experience a lot of the people who say "AS/400" are people who don't
know much about the AS/400, except maybe that it runs their production
reports and pretty much never needs any attention.
Anyway, the thing that I see as a common thread is the "i". So maybe it's
not any specific name, but the fact that we focus on that "i". Whether it's
i5/OS, or iSeries, or System i, I think the more we concentrate on the "i"
the better. Bold it, color it, make it stand out.
The i's have it.
Joe
midrange.com
