There you go! http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9230661/IBM_goes_big_on_new_mainframe_with_fastest_chip_flash_memory
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Tom Ambros <[email protected]>wrote: > It cracks me up that there are about 12 posts about the name and nothing > about the content. > > Thomas Ambros > Operating Systems and Connectivity Engineering > 518-436-6433 > > > > > > From: Phil Smith III <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 08/28/2012 08:47 > Subject: Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Alvaro Guirao Lopez > <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > This communication may contain privileged and/or confidential information. > It is intended solely for the use of the addressee. If you are not the > intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, copying, > distributing or using any of this information. If you received this > communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy > the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. This > communication may contain nonpublic personal information about consumers > subject to the restrictions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. You may not > directly or indirectly reuse or redisclose such information for any purpose > other than to provide the services for which you are receiving the > information. > > 127 Public Square, Cleveland, OH 44114 > If you prefer not to receive future e-mail offers for products or services > from Key > send an e-mail to mailto:[email protected] with 'No Promotional > E-mails' in the > SUBJECT line. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." Denis Diderot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
