RE: When is a bug a bug?

["Bob Anderson" <banderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden,
        Here is one for you. Almost everyday our XP machines go into 
hibernation on
the network. They will either loose the connection but think it's still
there or they will not be able to open any network resources. Also some take
forever to start. I just had one take 20 Min to do a restart.

Meanwhile the W2K boxes just hum right along doing whatever is asked of
them.  My 512 W2k box does almost all of WDSC fine but the XP boxes don't
like it.

Bob Anderson
EDI Coordinator
Kent Sporting Goods Inc.
New London OH 44851
419-929-7021 x315
419-929-1380 FAX

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 3:58 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: When is a bug a bug?


>Maybe I need to do an honest apples-to-apples comparison of
>defect rates.

What would you count? And how would it be counted? There are companies
with more copies of windows installed than there are iSeries in the
world (ok, perhaps hyperbole, but not by far). Remember too, only count
OS bugs, not application bugs, unless you want to count application bug
on iSeries too. And are you willing to count only server bugs on
hardware from the hardware compatibility guide? That's the closest thing
to the controlled hardware environment IBM has on the iSeries.

>I think I'll wait for Longhorn, since I'm already too
>jaded with XP.

Why? XP is a rock. (Not trying to get into stability question, but an
honest question about what problems you've seen, or are trying to avoid
seeing, in XP.)

-Walden

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Walden H Leverich III
President & CEO
Tech Software
(516) 627-3800 x11
WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)


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