Discussing a data interchange process with a high tech vendor today, he told me that their product could talk to an AS400 but had no experience of IBM i or iSeries.... *sigh*
AS400: just to clarify, the IBM as400 was the IBM minicomputer sold in the late 80’s with its operating system called ‘OS400’. In the mid 1990s it was replaced by its successor the next generation ‘IBM iSeries’. Around the early 2000’s this was replaced by the much improved ‘IBM System i’. The platform has continued to evolved and a few years ago the current generation of the machine was released, called the ‘IBM Power System’ running an operating system called ‘IBM I’ (but also now capable of running Linux, AIX and ‘I’ being the successor to ‘os400’).
Although this machine, the IBM Power System, is frequently referred to as ‘The 400’ or an ‘AS400’ this is just plain confusing as it’s like using a top of the range Windows Web Server and calling it a DOS PC. ;)