Timothy:
It depends... lets see some results before congratulating them. *IF*
Java is any indications I suspect there isn't a big enough machine
around to run one program.
Face it JAVA is a PIG when it comes to burning up cpu resources.
Ed
On Jul 11, 2013, at 12:06 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
Peter Farley opines:
They [IBM] have, time and again, shown themselves quite capable of
deliberately reducing the effectiveness of new technology to preserve
their revenue stream for a few more quarters.
Examples?
I'll offer a counterexample: the System/360. IBM led the
electromechanical
tabulating and accounting equipment market, and the System/360 utterly
destroyed the very market IBM dominated. The System/360 was either
going to
be history's stupidest act of corporate suicide or one of history's
most
brilliant business successes, depending on how it turned out.
More recent examples are obviously more relevant than older ones.
No points
awarded if the examples have other plausible motives available.
By the way, this question has just been answered for COBOL. Enterprise
COBOL Version 5.1 is available, now. Turn on the new compiler
optimizations
and measure the results. They be good. In my opinion it's
delusional to
think IBM would invest huge sums and many years developing (and
shipping!)
an entirely new backend for a product it didn't believe in and that it
didn't expect to sell. Utterly, completely delusional, with
absolutely no
sense of reality -- business or technical. In my personal view.
Sometimes
people post conspiratorial stuff here and then I think, "That
individual is
not rational in thought." Maybe others' experiences are different,
but I
haven't persuaded many people to act when I present an irrational
argument.
They just look at me funny and say something like, "OK, that's very
interesting. Thank you for sharing." I've learned to be a little more
thoughtful in trying to understand the world, rationally.
I applaud IBM for Enterprise COBOL V5 and recommend others do the
same.
Well done, and more, please.
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