System i blogger to IBM: Clean up your Web site

A running joke among the technorati in Rochester and certain pockets across the country has long been "What is the name of the AS/400, iSeries, System i, Power server today?"

While the latest incarnations of this mid-range computer server are not as closely tied to Rochester as during the days of Fortress Rochester, it is still of major interest here.

As such, I still watch the chatter on the machines.

Today a System i blogger by the name of David Vasta took IBM to task for not cleaning up its Web site. Former names as the way back to the AS/400 can still be found through the pages.

Here's his rant:

While in Nashville at COMMON I mentioned to IBM that someone and maybe more than one person needs to work on taking out all the old System i, iSeries, and eeeek AS/400 terms out of the OS and the IBM.com Web site.

I hate to report it, but it’s not happening like I would like it to. If this were Apple they would have had this all done while we were in the session, but IBM’s Web site has always been a tangled mess in much need of a comb.

And how the heck do I find the i from the main page? What gives IBM? Why is it so dang hard to find what you do? What do you hide it all from the customer. And not just the now customer, what about the next customer?

If I can’t find it and I have been a customer for over 18 years, how is “Johnny College Student” or “New IT Guy” going to find out what the Hell Power is and what they can run on it.

MAKE IT SIMPLE. I am starting to fall on the side of the old AS/400 guys who think you could not market water to people stuck in an oven…….COME ON!

Comments

[Scott Handy]

Hmmm..It does not seem hard to me to find i from the main ibm.com site. The pulldown for "Products" has "Systems and Servers" which clearly lists both the new "Power Systems" and the older "System i (iSeries)" which takes you to the new "IBM i"