Re: Software Vendors (And US too) - A small rant -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Software Vendors (And US too) - A small rant
From: Tim Bronski <tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:37:59 +0100
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We have a partnership with a largish software company that's now part of IBM. All of their documentation (recent stuff too) refers to the i as AS400. When I'm talking to their people guess which term I use? If I referred to our "ibm i" they'd think I was talking about a mobile device.

On 12/12/2012 8:12 AM, Mike Krebs wrote:

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It's a name, that's it, nothing more and certainly nothing less.

Boy, you got that right! And the name is IBM i!

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