: CA product numbers (was 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown) > >I've always loved the early CA product naming scheme (CA-1, CA-7, et al.). >Just think what that saved in marketing costs (to secure rights to a name), >not to mention tsuris in internal naming meetings! > >Of course, if they'd kept with it, we'd now be arguing over whether CA-237 or >CA-984 was the better choice for a particular problem. > >Maybe the folks who came up with that scheme are now at IBM, naming z boxes? >(Yes, yes, I *know* the numbers in "z196" and "z114" mean something, I'm just >sayin'...) >-- >...phsiii > >
Actaully those numbers come from Ucc numbering systems. Such as UCC-1 is CA1 UCC-7 is CA7 and so forth. CA just kept the names (1, 7, etc) and will probably go into a rename process at some point. CA7 will probably be renamed to something like WORKLOAD AUTOMATION product. Lizette ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
