Re: Software vendors and their antiquated systems... (rant on)

In regard to IBM i backward compatibility, I should admit that the
landscape changed significantly with Java and other PASE based language
environments. As IBM and other vendors adopted new language environments,
which are essentially new platforms in and of themselves, both reliability
and backward compatibility became a problem in those cases. Even IBM's
applications that are Java based became less reliable, PTF to PTF, and
release to release. It also seems that IBM has never really figured out how
to code Web interfaces that perform well and are reliable.



On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 8:54 AM Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Jim,

Am 31.08.2021 um 15:33 schrieb midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

A slightly different perspective: IBM does a much better job of

quality control in their software than the open source vendors (those that
deal in Linux and associated pieces/parts).

Thank you for confirming what I feel since I've begun to explore OS/400 —
i5/OS — IBM i.

Apple and Cisco do a stealer job as well

I don't know what you mean with that. Especially with the UNIX based OS
releases from Apple, I've learned the hard way to wait until the first or
second patch has been released. Especially in the early times with 10.3 to
10.5 this spared me much cursing over kernel panics.

so by not updating to the latest after saying about 30 or 60 days after

release, you just hurt yourself in terms of feature/function.

I don't care about shiny new functions/features if the product in question
is overall generating trouble. I need something that *works*, with my
applications. Not something that just looks like bling-bling.

On a side note, maybe we have a different view about features. I'm talking
about features the "end user" sees. I wouldn't wonder if you have some
focus on features easing programming. :-)

:wq! PoC

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