Re: power line (AS/400) article in computerworld

Crump, Mike wrote:

Different points of view are needed. However, there is a trend that is
occurring that makes those who won't discuss alternatives look open
minded:

-Or I5/OS file level backups for Linux, DB2 enhancements including
Omnifind
Doesn't matter. DB2 for i5/OS can't do what other databases do

DB2 for i can't win because the naysayers complain because it HAS features that other databases don't have - namely the ISAM access that makes it so blazingly fast. Anybody who knocks ISAM because it's not "pure SQL" isn't looking at things from an unbiased standpoint, they're simply picking nits.

It's one thing to ignore opportunities of improvement but it's another
to post like a force of change when it really seems like the posts are
just simply contumacious. These posts are not one bit better than those
who refuse to look at alternatives. You might want to think so and hold
those posts as some sort of altruistic discussion but they sure don't
seem to be. And that is the effect that they have on a lot of other
posters. In any discussion you will most likely get these kinds of
diametrically opposed positions but neither is better than the other....

Contumacious. First time I've needed to look up a non-technical word in quite some time. Thanks, Mike! But it's a good one: defiant of authority. I'd also say that some of the posts are designed to raise the ire of the folks on the list, and that there may even be some sort of satisfaction gleaned by the poster just out of the heat of the responses. That's one of the primary reasons I try to stay out of any opinion-based threads with all but a very few folks whom I respect highly, such as Walden "Mr. Microsoft" Leverich <grin>. With Walden, I may not agree but I always learn, because he doesn't trot out the same tired old argument for every post. And if I'm willing to put in the time to make a valid point, he's always willing to treat it (and me) with respect, even if he completely disagrees.

Joe