Re: Software vendors and their antiquated systems... (rant on)

Hello Jim,

Am 31.08.2021 um 15:33 schrieb midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

A slightly different perspective: IBM does a much better job of quality control in their software than the open source vendors (those that deal in Linux and associated pieces/parts).

Thank you for confirming what I feel since I've begun to explore OS/400 — i5/OS — IBM i.

Apple and Cisco do a stealer job as well

I don't know what you mean with that. Especially with the UNIX based OS releases from Apple, I've learned the hard way to wait until the first or second patch has been released. Especially in the early times with 10.3 to 10.5 this spared me much cursing over kernel panics.

so by not updating to the latest after saying about 30 or 60 days after release, you just hurt yourself in terms of feature/function.

I don't care about shiny new functions/features if the product in question is overall generating trouble. I need something that *works*, with my applications. Not something that just looks like bling-bling.

On a side note, maybe we have a different view about features. I'm talking about features the "end user" sees. I wouldn't wonder if you have some focus on features easing programming. :-)

:wq! PoC