RE: Design Change Requests

Amen brother! 

Regards,
 
Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group


-----Original Message-----
date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:22:12 -0700
from: Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Design Change Requests

But, what rankles me is that IBM is supposedly a big supporter of open 
source technologies, Linux in particular, and since I run Linux on my 
notebook and about 99% of the time I am booted to the Linux side that 
leaves me stuck when I hit a site that is IE only.  That is just silly.

My company develops open source applications and we eat our own dog food

here.  We run Linux.  We use Apache and Tomcat for web serving (some 
still IIS) and we write apps that are cross browser compatible.  We 
don't do it because it is easier or because IE is the most popular 
browser, we do it because we say we embrace open source technologies and

we put our money where our mouths are.

Come ON IBM!  Either eat your own dog food or bail on saying that open 
source is stated business direction. Firefox support should be a given, 
not a future enhancement.

Pete Helgren


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