RE: i5 Youngsters

Just an observation...

IBM seems to deliver a great platform, but the software tools are not so great (i'm in a friendly mood now).
MS has a not so great platform, but great software tools (WDSCi against VisualStudio is no comparison).

I think this is historically due to the fact that MS is a software company first of all, and IBM is a platform company (now expanding into services).

This is not IBM's fault. Bill Gates is a wise man (i'm not a fan), and early had the vision that software is driving IT, not hardware and infrastructure. And he brilliantly exploited this vision (as we are now stuck with the Windows monopoly).

IBM is (and sure was) a very big company, with a "normal" attitude to its market(s). I.e. they deliver what the customer wants (or rather, asks for). If you don't ask for free-format, or modular programming, you don't get it. That's why we have free-format RPG for about 8 years now, although the rest of the world does not know any what free-format is (or fixed for that matter). Because every language (except Fortran) is free format.

Bill Gates was a programmer, and such, knows that software is the driving force, and doesn't ask what you as a programmer "wants". He just delivers modern software tools, with up-to-date features, because he knows thats good for you, the programmer. This is like, sometimes, we have to educate our users because they don't always know the possibilities and consequences.

IBM just delivers what the customers asks for, if there is enough demand. This is an okay strategy of course, but in this case (e.g. RPG) it didn't quite work out.

From: nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-nontech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: i5 Youngsters
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:47:53 -0600

Via the System i and Domino.

Paul Nelson
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Office 512-392-2577
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[mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:42 AM
To: Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: i5 Youngsters

On 1/15/08, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Um, I have several System i centric clients who have no Windows servers at
all. Lots of Windows client PC's, but no servers.

How do you make sure that they're properly patched, their antivirus is
up to date, and how do you publish new applications to them?

How do control access to network resources centrally?

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