Re: Software Vendors - A small rant

I call it AS/400 with friends who still are working with it. When I am
talking about my background, for say a project not with AS/400, I will use
not useAS/400 if the person is very young because I strongly doubt they
have heard of this term, then I will say I worked on ' IBM machines, like
the AS/400 or i." I will only say AS/400 with someone in the industry
awhile. I haven't seen this system in over 4 years though.




On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Norm Dennis <nhdennis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Oh so true, Andrew.
Not to mention that there are legacy machines out in the real world, which
are still S/36's, AS/400's, iSeries, and I5's.

Chuck's point is very valid too but we still have to support the old, as
well as the new.


Norm Dennis
M: 0417 659 914 | E: nhdennis@xxxxxxxxxxx


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So the moral of the story is use the current marketing name. As an
example use Cloud computing rather than distributed computing. :)

No, the moral of the story is that when you make a complete mishmash of
your
marketing, you're lucky to even still have a product to sell. Between
picking names that were unsearchable in Google (System i, really?),
changing
names multiple times in a five year period, and coming up with a name that
only the Republic of North Korea could find attractive (IBM i operating
environment running on Power Systems, really?), IBM is lucky to still have
the product line.

Blame the idiots at IBM, not the users.


Andrew&nbsp;&nbsp;Lopez
Systems Analyst



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