But does .NET run on a platform that is reliable enough to run your
business on? Not the business I work for. We've been troubleshooting IE,
.NET, and Excel issues for about 7 days now that were triggered by a simple
installs/uninstalls of unrelated utility applications. I sure am glad the
the databases and apps that are truly running our BUSINESS are on a stable
i5 running V6R1 (which converted thousands of 'old' programs, java
programs, IFS names, etc. without event a few weeks back and installed on 3
complex machines without a hitch). I guess we're lucky that because our
truly IMPORTANT apps run on the i, we had that extra week to troubleshoot
this goofy Windows issue we burned all the time on.
From a developer's perspective, I guess I can realize that some of you are
annoyed by the way components work together underneath the covers of the
app. That's no reason for a business to prefer a platform that is
inherently unstable (this has been the case for version after version of
Windows that I have seen installed at business after business that i've
worked with/for), to a platform that is rock solid.
There's no way to avoid using Windows in most organizations, and i'll agree
that it's fine for alot of apps that are needed around the fringe of a
business. It's still not arrived at being a truly stable 'business'
platform.
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:30 AM, M. Lazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
As I mentioned above, we are doing our part. IBM's marketing is
not.
how is it a marketing problem when so many IBM i shops have moved off
the system? Companies that use the system already know what it can
do. More marketing will not tell them anything they dont know. The
problem is software technology. IBM is very poorly managed on this
front. PHP works different than Java, which is different from RPG,
SQL procedures, CL, COBOL and C. ( but what do I know. This is the
same for Linux, where the many programming languages used there dont
work interchangeably either. It is only in .NET where I see an
emphasis on languages working well together. )
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