On 23 Jun 2008 10:04:08 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >--------------------------<snip>-------------------------- >Agreed. There are statistics and damn statistics. Numbers can be made to >say anything these days. > >Alternatives *are in the process of maturing*. They certainly are not >there yet! I am amazed at the failure tolerance of distributed >application systems. If it is broke, they spend more money on it without >getting to the root cause: bad architectural design. The mainframe >systems have never been given this kind of leeway. >--------------------------<unsnip>------------------------- >And probably never will have this sort of leeway. Until IT management >learns to place business needs first and platform second. They need to >learn to select platforms based on business needs, not on PERCEIVED ease >of use. And the advocates of smaller platforms better start thinking >real hard about change control and quality control, backup and recovery, >disaster recovery, and many of the other problems we've already >addressed, in some cases very well, on those "dinosaurs" we call mainframes. > The change control for application development is probably better on PC's. The IDE's for C# that I have seen described are something I wanted 20+ years ago. IBM and CA should go back and read the SHARE/Guide Language Futures Task Force Report.
Quality control is an organizational problem, not a platform problem. Tivoli has non-mainframe backup software and for disk to removable hard drive, Acronis TrueImage does a nice full volume backup with compression which can be reloaded onto a new drive using a backup CD. You can also restore individual files from the backup. As a former user of FDR, I feel right at home with Acronis. I think they also will back up to DVD and have both incremental and backup all changes from a baseline backup. It all depends on how much money and people resource an organization is willing to put into the process. Clark Morris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
