John, Excellent, I wished Microsoft would take note from IBM. The problems in distribution of code and testing are time,experience and a lot of patience. I find some of the Linux distros pretty good in regard to fixes and reliability. Ran a lot of Fedora, now OpenSuse because we use z/Pdt.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 18, 2012, at 12:36 PM, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> wrote: > IBM had the considerable advantage, circa 1964, of having had > substantial experience with the inadequacies of the fix-handling > machinery it had put together for IBSYS. > > It came to terms early with the perhaps regrettable but ineluctable > frequency of errors in tested code. Other vendors persisted for long > in the notion that they could somehow eliminate all errors before they > distributed code. > > Moreover, IBM (a few unsuccessful excursions aside) has always dealt > with professional programmers rather than, say, the end users of > Windows. An analogue of SMP/E would not, I suspect, serve Microsoft > well in its dealings with most of its end users. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
