RE: Weird Websphere Studio side effect

No negative intent intened, I was just commenting on the apparent approach
that IBM takes to even the smallest of problems.

Jack Derham
Direct Systems, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 7:08 PM
To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: RE: Weird Websphere Studio side effect

Jack, if you post this on WDSCI-L, I'll be happy to address it.  WDSC is not
a toy, it's an incredible multi-platform, multi-language editing,
development and debugging platform.

Joe

> From: directsystemsinc02
> 
> I know that WDSC is the wave or craze of the future but I have been
> keeping
> score on the number of problem issues that have been posted on this list
> and
> they certainly seem excessive. I like new toys as much as the next person
> maybe even more but WDSC just feels like a pig in a tutu. When I loaded
> 6.0
> I thought that was a never ending task but then I immediately had to
> upgrade
> it and that was a task forever plus.
> 
> We all bitch at MS for their software glitches but at least then seem to
> have solved the problems of software distribution. The upgrades from IBM
> today seem to be as bad as the old s/38 upgrades from the PID in Sawmill
> County.
> Why can't they replace they current approach of "BIG" upgrades at a
> relatively low frequency to one of "small" upgrades at a higher frequency.
> Maybe the basic design has a flaw of very large granularity and this from
> a
> company that has been breaching modularity even since ILE hit the street.
> I
> guess some of the people in the church don't listen to the sermons.
> 
> OK, I have vented and feel better!
> 
> Jack Derham
> Direct Systems, Inc.