Re: RDi way ahead

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1

And that's from a person who has had a hate=hate relationship with older 
WDSC clients!

Vern

On 3/8/2017 1:24 PM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting Inc. wrote:
> I don't know what you guys are talking about, there isn't a "way PC products are installed". As if everyone does it the same standard way. Some software comes with a 3rd party installer, some use .msi files (or yet another installer by MS), some you have to extract into a folder. And the installer thing usually is different for each vendor. It just isn't that difficult to install RDi. I've done it a bunch of times on different PC's. If you download the demo, it comes with an installer, and you just run it. It would be nice if IBM removed the Admin requirement.
>
> Mark Murphy
> Atlas Data Systems
> mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----j.beckeringh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: -----
> To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> From: j.beckeringh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: 03/08/2017 08:45AM
> Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi way ahead
>
>
> 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?"