PCP -> MFT -> MVT -> MVS... IBM sales was changing the name even when it was "free" (i.e., bundled with the hardware). I guess you just can't keep a salesman from "improving" a name.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2010 2:56 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: PROP instead of POPS, PoO, et al. > > john gilmore wrote: > > >Why not PROP instead? > > You are a good PROPonent to PROPerly PROPose a good name change! ;-D > > >but one standard term that was accurate and innocuous would certainly > be > useful. > > What standards? There are a lot of gripes on this very list about the > big blue's > products name changes... > > From ADSM to TSM > RACF to Security Server > MVS/XA - MVS/ESA - OS/390 - z/OS > etc... (can't remember now what ... ) > > Thanks CICS and DB2 are still the same... ;-D > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
