On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Alvaro Guirao Lopez <alvarogui...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I did'nt see it, but I understand EC12 means Enterpise Class 12 (why 12?) 12 comes after 11, and while the z196 wasn't called the z-anything-11, it logically was. I think we can safely consider the z196 naming convention to be an aberration, hopefully not to be repeated (although these are the same folks who brought us the "Magic Box" and "Super Human Software" campaigns, so anything's possible). >That could be the reason mainframezone had chaged the name to Enterprise >Class. Hm? Thomas Publications aka Enterprise Systems Media changed Mainframe Executive to Enterprise Executive, and z/Journal to Enterprise Tech Journal. "Enterprise Class" was IBM's name for the big machines since the z9 machines. (As opposed, of course, to "Business Class", which always struck me as funny, since IBM essentially co-opted the name "enterprise" to be synonymous with "business" back in 1990 with the ESA announcement. Reminds me of a meeting I was in once, where a marketroid was describing something about support options. "Suppose we have three levels of support", he began. "Basic, Standard, and.um" - he paused to think of a third name. "Regular?" I suggested, which got me a dirty look!) I believe the Thomas changes were to broaden the publications' appeal, acknowledging the reality that nobody is *just* a mainframe shop any more. With the zBX, even that hypothetical all-mainframe shop isn't necessarily that any more. .phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
