Re: AS/400 Server.

I dont get why both IBM and Cisco didnt dispute that trademark. IOS is the
cisco operating system from old and i5 OS and i/OS were names for IBM i
before it became IBM i.


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Monnier, Gary <Gary.Monnier@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I'd really like to see IBM place their emphasis on the software rather
than the hardware. Something like...

IBM i/OS 7.1 running on Power Systems 7, 6 and 5
IBM i/OS 6.1 running on Power Systems 7, 6 and 5
IBM i/OS 5.4 running on Power Systems 4 and 5
IBM i/OS 5.4.5 running on Power Systems 4 and 5

A suggestion for what it is worth. May be trademark issues now with
Apple's iOS.

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On 10 May 2013 07:08, Anderson, Kurt wrote:

I always try to call our system what it is, a Power 7 running IBM i
7.1. However, the Cumulative PTF DVD we just got from IBM says this:

System i5
OS/400 Cumulative PTFs
V7R1M0...

Made me chuckle.

I will not offer what is my guess as to why nobody has changed the
first two mis-references, but...

The conspicuous difference between V#R#M# and V.R will probably
remain. The latter was purely a /marketing/ aspect; i.e. for naming
consistency in marketing: "IBM OS\product Version.Release". The OS
however, still maintains the V##R##M## information as integral data, and
the support\service identification [e.g. PTFs] mimics that pattern
specific to the OS. There is little reason that should ever change, and
some good reasons not to change that naming; e.g. there is no benefit
for consistency in cross-platform release naming, for the ability to
search technical databases of a single platform, especially for which
the dot-separated-digits do not provide for a well-formed search token
that is conspicuously not just some decimal number or even a date.

Of course that does not mean to imply they could not *additionally*
include the proper marketing name on the service-related labeling.

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