Re: I will stop calling it an AS/400 when . . . [ this condition is met ]

In answer to your question - "I wonder how the next name of the Access
software will be.







IBM is now calling our favorite database by the name DB2 for i (formerly
known as DB2/400 and DB2 UDB for iSeries) and our favorite OS is called
IBM i version 6.1





See the web page below
http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg020409-story02.html


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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/05/2009 11:06:57 AM:

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 15:06, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So, what do you expect a person who buys the same hardware as you but

runs

only AIX on it to call it? An AS/400?

Aah, the joys of marketing.

The problem here is that almost nobody refers to their Windows servers
as "IBM System x". Instead it's more along the line of "We run our
Windows on IBM servers and IBM blades". Nobody really cares if they
are called System x or xSeries.

IBM rebranded the AS/400 hardware (bear with me here, there may be a
more correct way of saying this, but this is easier) as iSeries - but
the hardware is secondary to the software - OS/400 and AS/400 was a
nice combo, and many people are more aware of the name AS/400 than
OS/400 (it would be interesting to know why, but i sure don't know).

The OS was rebranded later, in one of the more stupid moves by IBM to
i5/OS - V5R3 wasn't rebranded, V5R4 was partially rebranded and when
V6R1 came out it had yet another name.

So we're stuck here with System i Access V6R1 to access our IBM i
running on IBM POWER, which is installed into a folder called Client
Access.

I wonder how the next name of the Access software will be.

IBM i on IBM POWER Access V6R2

IBM would do themselves a lot of good if they just stuck the system
name in a branding.xml on IBM.com somewhere, signed it digitally, and
have all their software retrieve that file daily. Or hourly.

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