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IBM may have billions of issues, but I think that the fact the IBM I is still a supported product actively developed is commendable. I doubt that are that many
by elzbardico 2y ago
IBM may have billions of issues, but I think that the fact the IBM I is still a supported product actively developed is commendable. I doubt that are that many active clients, and while I have no doubt the prices for new equipment, support and licenses are enterprise-level obscene, for enterprise customers running 30 years old critical code on this platform, I bet they are happy IBM is not trigger happy on discontinuing products like Google, or even Microsoft.
- bongodongobob 2y agoIBM I is alive and well in large manufacturing organizations. I've worked with companies that have had it but sadly never got to touch or play with it.
- saltymug76 2y agoI can speak with confidence that its hanging on by a thread. IBM has bean counted the development and support staff to the point that entire critical sections of the OS have maybe one, two people working on it. Bugs take months or years to be addressed and security flaws sometimes take just as long to get patched. Not to mention features that were new 20 years ago get the IBM red tape and beuracacy treatment and never get implemented, alienating even more customers.
- markus_zhang 2y agoIs the profit that low for IBM to do that? It sounds like it's an empty shell eaten by <>.
- saltymug76 2y agoProfits fine, its just not raking in billions and billions like IBM Z is, so IBM i always gets the scraps.
- justin66 2y agoYeesh. What a weird area to make deep cuts. They spend all that money developing the hardware, successfully, but it needs the software in order to shine.
- saltymug76 2y agoMy conspiracy brain thinks part of the reason for the red hat acquisition was to funnel disgruntled IBM i customers into that while bleeding the platform dry.