Well said John.
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Yeung
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 11:37 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: California Software/Infinite Corporation
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:45 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Splattering the data across the datacenter on desperate systems and
servers and databases is fraught with peril. Just ask anyone who's tried it.
I don't disagree with this, but...
Here is just one real life example of a customer who has trod
that
path:
[gory details of train wreck]
As someone who "grew up" outside of the midrange community, and who tries to keep abreast of all developments in computing, regardless of platform, I would like to stress that stories like these, while true and informative, are still just cherry-picked anecdotes. To someone like me, the takeaway isn't "oh, see how superior the i is". It's "gosh, they really hired a bunch of amateurs".
Because the folks who came up with that "solution" would most likely have produced a pile of crap even if they had done the whole thing on the i.
The sad fact is, most code written on ANY platform is pretty much crap. But the best code on ANY platform is a thing of beauty. You see it all the time: The quality of the developer transcends and trumps the platform. If you put a gun to Scott Klement's head and tell him he has to use <insert name of whatever language you find horrible, on whatever operating system you find horrible>, he'll wind up making something better than most of us could make using all our favorite tools.
So all the horror stories are what they are. I know there are tons of them. I've witnessed some firsthand. But all that really *proves* is that it's hard to move off of what you're currently running. I'm confident that the migration path in the other direction (to IBM midrange from something else *that's already working*) is just as fraught with peril, if not worse.
All of which suggests what would be much more convincing: *success
stories* of businesses which have migrated *to* IBM midrange. That's what folks promoting the i should be super-eager to share. Because failures (in any direction) are easy to find, and don't prove much of anything.
John Y.
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