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["Eric Lehti" <elehti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the great info CRPence!  Can you add it to wikipedia?
Thanks, ericl
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of CRPence
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 1:35 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Calling names - System i5

   The specific product, as the hardware server model, was branded a 
System i5 server.  The family of hardware, inclusive of what would 
previously have been referred to as any of S/3X, AS/400, iSeries, and 
System i5, was branded /System i/.  So call the claims whatever you 
like, I think the claims fit with what IBM had done.

   That may even include an alluded emphasis\focus tending toward the OS

because with continued convergence into an effective System pi and now 
i5/OS on blades, the hardware focus may finally be losing out to a more 
OS-focus approach.  An approach that many alluded was more appropriate, 
analogous to how Windoze was and still is using the same moniker 
irrespective of its underlying hardware.  That focus clearly shows in 
the conference naming, a common hardware chipset irrespective of form 
factor and an OS, those listed at www.ibm.com/services/learning :

  IBM POWER Systems Technical University featuring AIX and Linux 
Chicago, Illinois, USA
  IBM POWER Systems Technical University featuring i5/OS Chicago, 
Illinois, USA

  So....
    Windoze on Intel, Dell server
    i5/OS   on POWER, System i5 server
    Linux   on POWER, System i5 server
    AIX     on POWER, System i5 server
    i5/OS   on POWER, System p5 server
    i5/OS   on POWER, JS22 blade
    AIX     on POWER, System p5 server
    Linux   on POWER, System p5 server
    Lx86    on POWER, System p

Regards, Chuck