[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Scott Dorsey]

Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>My sense with the AIX tools was that they were trying to
>insulate the system manager (or low-paid operators) from the
>underlying system.  If your use-case is a factory floor or a
>business data processing shop, that may make some sense.

This is the IBM WAY.  The system manager does this, the operations staff
does that, nobody is able to do anything else outside of what they are
supposed to do, and if you want something else done you call IBM and they
do it.

IBM is a services company.  They sell hardware only so that they can sell
services for them.  Their goal is to optimize your need for IBM services.

>>Again, I think this was because the intention was to run a million
>>workstations with a single admin.  If something goes wrong to prevent 
>>booting, you just swap the machine out with a new one and have your 
>>on-site IBM FE fix it.
>
>Yeah, but when a room full of them are crashed and won't boot,
>one wonders whether the cure isn't worse than the disease.  :-)

That depends whether you are an IBM shareholder or not.
--scott
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