RE: Software Vendors - A small rant

["Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<<it's a sentence.>>

When is the next scheduled parole hearing?

:-))

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob P. Roche
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:12 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Software Vendors - A small rant

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.