Re: Software Vendors - A small rant -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Software Vendors - A small rant
From: "Bob P. Roche" <BRoche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:11:58 -0600
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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!

And I still agree with an article I read recently,

IBM i operating environment running on Power Systems

Is not a name, it's a sentence.

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