RE: Software Vendors - A small rant

["Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You're in fine form today, Gedwardo.

Paul Nelson
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Subject: Re: Software Vendors - A small rant

i

(like Bono, or Sting)

or

you can say "the IBM i operating environment running on Power Systems"

(like "the performer formally known as Prince" or "His Excellency 
President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin, VC, DSO, MC, 
Lord of all the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror 
of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.")


On 12/11/2012 4:31 PM, Jerry Draper wrote:
> So, pray tell, what do YOU call it?
>
> J
>
> On 12/11/2012 2:28 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> > On 12/11/12 2:06 PM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > Note to software vendors: If you want me to consider your software for
> > > the IBM i operating environment running on Power Systems, please do not
> > > call it, iSeries, AS/400, System i, or my personal favorite System/38.
> >
> > What's in a name? That which we call a rose
> > By any other name would smell as sweet.
> >
> > -- Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene ii
> >
> > And more to the point, if they're calling it AS/400, then it's probably
> > because they've been writing for it since before IBM started
> > Mickey-Mousing with the name!
> >
> > --
> > JHHL