Michael:
You are missing something very important. That is, that "the other guys"
have just as many down-level OS users as i5/OS/400. Why do you think there
was so much howling when Microsoft's update system broke over the Daylight
Savings change this year? Because such a high percentage of their users
were still running an operating system released in the 1990s, that's why.
(And I'm talking legitimate, licensed copies, still getting security
patches.)
If you compare the current installed base of any OS to the latest release
of any other, the latest release will *always* have the advantage. No
flash of insight there. Nevertheless there are still people selling
software that runs on MS-DOS, not because they expect to get rich from it
but because there is a market and the development costs were sunk long
ago. And you can't begin to compare the hardware reliability of the
typical PC to that of a same-era IBM midrange.
If IBM's hardware broke to the point where it couldn't be fixed, more
often, their installed base would be more modern....
If IBM's i5/OS had a cool-looking GUI as its normal interface, it would
*look* more modern....
Darrell
Darrell A. Martin - 630-754-2141
Manager, Computer Operations
dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 07/23/2007 02:24:32 PM:
Brad wrote:
"I would guess at least 20-30% are pre V5, another 30-40 are V5R1/2 and
the rest maybe V5R3/4. I would be willing to bet other ISVs that do
support lower OS versions would have similar numbers."
Holy *&^%. That might help partially explain why the system is not
considered modern.......V5R1 was announced in 2001, V5R2 was announced
in 2002, V5R3 announced in 2004. Makes almost any other Wintel or Unix
system look like it is comparatively ultra modern to i5/OS when in fact
it isn't.
Michael Crump
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