Mr. Crayford's most recent post makes a mixed bag of points. He begins with
<begin extract 1> I have serious concerns about the capability of the people running IBMs web infrastructure. <end extract 1/> which would be unobjectionable as a statement of personal opinion if it were not so sweeping. My comments were about the z/OS Information Center, not "IBMs (sic) web infrastructure", which encompasses a good deal else, much of which functions well. He then goes on to observe that <begin extract 2> Taking a service down for almost 3 days to do an upgrade is a disgrace. Even your average fairy cake blogger knows they can put their old site in read-only mode while they switch over to the new one. <end extract 2/> and here we are in full agreement. He then turns to extolling the reliability and availability of blade servers, and here we disagree. Whatever their other deficiencies may be, mainframes are much more available and reliable. Interestingly, this is the case not because mainframe "hardware failures" do not occur but because they are recovered from when they do. Taken all for all what we have here is an overextended post, a curious mixture of commendable, albeit now familiar, concrete points and at once indefensible and gratuitous generalities. This is a pity because he is right about the deficiencies of the z/OS Information Centre/Center. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
