Re: An IBM user group's final message: pwrdwnsys *immed

[James Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Trevor Perry wrote:
> Religious rant or not, you cannot attract people to a platform that is no
> longer being sold. If you keep advocating for whatever the platform USED to
> be, you will not maintain credibility. I bet that IBM guy said the "AS/400"
> was sunsetted, because a couple of years ago, there was no System i. And,
> the "AS/400" has been sunsetted.

Undoubtedly, there are people at IBM who never liked the S-3 or any of 
its progeny, and would like to "sunset" the whole midrange concept. THAT 
is the only plausible explanation I've ever seen for IBM insisting on 
constant renaming.

Consider that WinDoze Vista bears little resemblance (other than being a 
ridiculous processor-and-memory-hog) to the DOS GUI add-on of over two 
decades ago, yet it's still called WinDoze. Likewise, this year's model 
of Macintosh bears very little resemblance (other than in ease of use, 
and being designed around a GUI from the naked hardware on up) to the 
original Mac 128 of almost a quarter century ago, and yet Apple still 
calls it a Macintosh.