RE: System i Revenue Up

[john e <jacobus1968@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve said:

you have to protest when IBM is cutting the system's throat thru underinvestment. For the programmer, i5/OS is a clunky OS. It can easily be improved, IBM has the money to make the OS better, and revenue would likely increase.  I dont think IBM execs are aware of the shortcomings of the system. as well as, apparantly, the experts on this list.

I agree 100%!!



Then Nelson said:

The machine is not designed to make programmers happy. It's designed to make business owners happy. Programming elegance is pretty low on the list of priorities for a guy who sells tractor parts. He just wants the thing to work, all day, every day.


As Bill Gates knew for a long time: ITS THE APPLICATIONS STUPID. The lack of decent development tools (and i am not talking about "elegance" here) is the real problem with the system i. But if you already have a great platform (but dodgy development tools) then it is not too complicated to fix this. IBM has to make the right choices where to invest their dollars. But they don't because "we" are all saying that RPG is great, the development tools are great, all is great. But it's not. The platform is great, the development tools are clumsy and out-of-date. Compare WDSCi with VisualStudio and compare RPG with Java/C#. 

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> From: nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: System i Revenue Up
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:31:37 -0600
>
> The machine is not designed to make programmers happy. It's designed to make
> business owners happy. Programming elegance is pretty low on the list of
> priorities for a guy who sells tractor parts. He just wants the thing to
> work, all day, every day.
>
> Paul Nelson
> Office 512-392-2577
> Cell 708-670-6978
> nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 9:24 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: System i Revenue Up
>
> On Jan 25, 2008 10:08 AM,  wrote:
>
> > Steve,
> >      Is it you job to come around here and disseminate FUD?  If that's how
> > you feel about the i5, why waste your time on this listserv (especially
> > the
> > effort of posting to it).  I have to assume that if you make the effort,
> > there must be some motive behind it...
>
>
> you have to protest when IBM is cutting the system's throat thru
> underinvestment. For the programmer, i5/OS is a clunky OS. It can easily be
> improved, IBM has the money to make the OS better, and revenue would likely
> increase.  I dont think IBM execs are aware of the shortcomings of the
> system. as well as, apparantly, the experts on this list.
>
> -Steve
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