Re: How long a future? (was: An interesting meeting with IBM)

Posted in 2004

Andrew Hamm — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:43:10 +1000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Five Cats wrote: > Andrew Hamm writes: >> >> OK, they're still one of the Axis of Evil (IBM, Oracle, Microsoft) >> but how easy is it to avoid their products these days? > > How desirable is it? If it's defective, crashes-5-times-a-day O/S and mail clients, then very undesirable. I do confess to appreciating the very solid engineering of a lot of IBM product. Funny thing is, when I was a junior programmer, IBM was the evil empire that would be slain by microprocessors, CP/M and MS-DOS 1 using MS-Pascal. Funny how times change.