Re: best o/s survey...someone's missing a few bits...

I agree that people simply vote for whatever they are familiar with and do
not vote for what they are unfamiliar with.

A large company held a meeting of programmers in the early 1980's to choose
what programming language would be best for the company in the long term.
Cobol won out by a landslide because that's what 95% of the programmers
knew.  What a surprise.

Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Naughton <mnaughton@juddwire.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: best o/s survey...someone's missing a few bits...


> I'm not knocking OS/400 -- all I'm saying is that I think most of us would
> choose it as "best" because we know it and like it and feel comfortable
> with it. But that's the same reason Unix weenies will pick some flavor of
> Unix (the one they're familar with) and Winbots will pick Windows, so all
> the poll does IMHO is show how many people are familiar with the o/ses on
> the list. "Best" will mean nothing more than "used by the greatest number
> of respondents". Based on IBM's well-documented "efforts" to market
> OS/400, I doubt if it has a chance of claiming the top spot.