Re: RDi way ahead -- WDSCI-L

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Now if only someone at IBM would take the trouble of explaining to all of
us WHY the whole thing with Installation Manager is superior to what the
rest of the industry does. Then either he or she could finally make us
understand (and stop complaining about it), or come to the insight that
maybe it wasn't such a great idea after all (and do something about it).

Joep Beckeringh
Pantheon Automatisering B.V.

Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

08-03-2017 14:33

Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi way ahead

I must have missed the original post by Tim... the second paragraph
is hilarious. I have often thought the same thing.

I'm sure the RDi team does a good job and I don't suppose any of the
developers went to their boss one day and said "You know how much we
hate our users right? Well, instead of just having our software
install like any other piece of PC software, why not create our own
'installation manager'
which we can use to make installation, updating and licencing really
painful, that will really antagonise them!" Or "Boss, you know how
the IBM i is struggling to attract new talent and persuade people to
use up-do-date tools, well why not raise the barrier to entry even
higher by charging a small fortune for them?"

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