RE: Anybody besides me notice?

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter, are you suggesting that OS/400 (i5/OS) is less stable?  I personally
have never opened a PMR, while Rob has raised dozens.  I don't know about
his take on it, but my take is that the system is just as stable as it
always has been, which is far more stable than even the latest release of
Windows.

WebSphere is an inherently less stable beast, but that's the nature of web
application servers in general.  I will say that I find Tomcat more stable
than WebSphere 6, but I don't think that's any sort of knock of the iSeries.

RPG, on the other hand, seems more stable, faster, more powerful.  SQL keeps
getting better.  CL continues to just plain work.

When's the last time you saw a bug in the operating system?  This isn't
preaching, it's just asking a simple question.

Hardware, on the other hand, IS less stable in my opinion.  It's nowhere
near the failure rate of commodity machines, but it's also worse than I
remember it in years past.

But no matter what, the salient point is that "worse" means that I've had to
have IBM come in and replace a drive for me twice in the last five years.
How many disk drives need to be replaced on a commodity box?  Hell, I have
to pretty much replace my laptop every three years.

Joe


> From: Peter Dow (ML)
>
> Nice rant, but you didn't address the part of Walden's post that you
> quoted that I found interesting -- has our favorite gotten less stable?
> Is there any quantitative assessment that could prove it one way or
> another, say # ptfs per release?  Or if we're talking hardware, #
> service requests per new model?  Or should I expect more preaching to
> the choir, with anecdotes instead of hard facts?