Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest V1 #635

Booth,

In a message dated 97-09-04 23:18:10 EDT, you write in part:

> The AS/400in all other areas is reliable and straight forward without too
>  much hassle.
>  
>  It seems to me that only the Win95 client that is having the problem, so
>  why is everyone upset with IBM?  Why not get upset with the people at
>  Microsoft that are making the moving target?

<<Warning, soapbox mode ensues>>
Because the CA product in general has ALWAYS been sub-par by AS/400
standards.  After nearly 10 years, it still has far too many components that
are merely "bloated and patched" enhancements to the same PC/Support product
that ran on the /36 and /38.  People blame IBM because it CAN do better with
specialty PC products than it has with something that everyone needs -- check
out the Visual Age suite!  CA is CONSTANTLY behind the 3rd party connectivity
vendors in features, useability, and ease of installation.  We're just fed up
with it!

Yes MS has provided a moving target of late, but what about the FIRST seven
years?  IBM continues to provide "too little, too late" with CA, and people
are upset that they must purchase 3rd party products (who themselves don't
seem to have much problem with MS's targets) when they would rather use a
"true blue" application.
<<End soapbox mode>>

IMHO,

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-Mail:  DAsmussen@AOL.COM

"Be like a postage stamp -- stick to one thing until you get there." --
Margaret Carty
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