In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/11/2005 at 07:10 AM, "Richards.Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I agree with you that it should not go on, but it does. Not in >meetings, but in hallway conversations. I have been involved with >several mixed-vendor implementations and not one of them was cut and >dried. Everything *eventually* works, but all things being equal, I >simply prefer a single vendor solution. In my experience, they have >gone smoothly, regardless of vendor. You can get that even in a single vendor environment, e.g., the IBM hardware CE trying to fob off a machine check as a software error. A machine check that occurs even in single step mode! -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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