R.S. wrote: >I'm not marketing specialist, so just my €0.02 IMHO names like System z or System p or System i are not good. For us it's clear what is "z", but for uneducated people it looks like typo, just unnecessary character in the sentence. Here in Poland people still tend to use RS/6000 (with silent slash - just R-S-six-thousand) or AS/400 or mainframe. Names like "gismo", "turbolaser", "HGW300" are much easier to catch-eye or search or google, and cannot be ignored as a typo.
Absolutely. “IBM i” is quite possibly the stupidest name ever from a branding perspective, as it’s *not searchable*: when you look for it, you find “When I was at IBM, I used to…” and the like. “z Systems” and “System z” weren’t great, but were better than “IBM i”. Agreed that “IBM Z” looks sort of like a typo; “zSeries” was better, even if folks tended to get it wrong: Zseries, z-series, z/series, etc. Branding is always hard; in the era of Google, there’s this additional difficulty of making it findable. Hence all the ostensibly stupid names like “Flickr”—those are easy to search! -- ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
