Re: XPS to IDS - a positive note for all from the road

On Aug 31, 10:04 am, InDeep <ind...@indeep.com> wrote: = > I have yet to stumble into a company using Rational. It must be something IBM uses internally, right? Same for > Clearcase, another behemoth package you'd only find at IBM, along with Websphere, does anybody actually use this shit? > It's soooooo far removed from 99% of the companies IDS should be hitting. So maybe IBM works well with the top fortune > 100s with these kinds of softwares, but that means IBM misses most of the rest of the market that Informix is ripe for. > And yet they continue to sell billions of dollars of this crap--which I have yet to see actually being used by 99% of > the companies out there that most of us run into. Nope, I'm working with a client that is a Rational shop. They got in to it before IBM's acquisition. As to Websphere, yes people are using it. You have to consider that with packages like JBoss that there are trade offs. Not every company is going to want LAMP.