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  3. December 2006

RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Argue all you want about IBM and Apple charging a premium for their

systems, but it is an integrated system. Since you control the hardware
environment, you can optimize device drivers, the kernel, etc. for the
environment.

I was thinking about this the other day in relation to IBM's WebSphere.
When did their software start to become more unreliable?  When they had to
start relying on other companies infrastructures (whether they be hardware
or software).  Not that those other companies infrastructures are bad, but
they are not intimately integrated and do not go through the same groups
unit testing.

Thoughts from the lawn,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

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