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In article <y57NzgRDAgKT091yn@bigblue.no>, B. Vermo <bv@bigblue.no> wrote:
>In article <5h35l6$m49@client3.news.psi.net>,
>os2@mistik.express.net (Mustafa Soysal MS57) wrote:
>
>|Experiencing IBMs support inabilities for several years turned me to NT
>|or linux.
>
>Free Linux has typical DIY support. Does commercial Linux have any support 
>in your area? And does Microsoft have any support beyond salespeople,

IBM doesn't have any serious support, and you get better support with
linux over the net when you make a bug report....  Microsoft asks for
support pay, a lot less than IBM asks for.  Face it, paying for 3
incidences when you need one is the cost of support for one incidence,
and especially if this is aabout an OS trap or file system lockup you
are getting, and they aren't able to provide a fix within the warranty
support period, why would you consider paying for that lack of support?

>trainees and 'he is not in today's?
>
>I have often thought IBM support was bad. Then I remembered the 
>alternative, and it immediately seemed to improve. But I have worked
>with computers for thirty years, and do not need all that much support.

Same here, all I need support for is whn the OS/2 slowsdown to a halt
for a while when the disk fragmenates peridically or when the file
system locks up locking up the entire system, or when the OS/2 traps.
And, I didn't get any support to fix these problems.  They denied that
these problems ever existed.  They said my RAM memory is probably going
bad suggesting that I reseat them (if it ain't broken, don't fix them).

Yet, a few fixpacks later, I see some of the problems being listed in
the fix history.  Others are still not fixed.  When I offered something
that reproduces the problem 100%, they declined saying that program was
no longer supported, yet it duplicates the very problem on keypress
which exists when I run the system for more than 24 hours....

>I could manage Linux, but would never dream of using it in a production
>setting. For that purpose you definitely need commercial UNIX - like
>AT&T/NCR, not SCO! Or even a real computer like HP-9000 or IBM RS/6000.

;) What makes you think that AT&T unix is better than IBM OS/2?  Now, HP
is slightly different, yet, I wouldn't really trust their support
either.

>That would be the alternative for me if OS/2 is not adequate for the

Pardon my correction.  OS/2 would be adequate if IBM was supporting and
cleaning up bugs...IBM is inadequate, not OS/2, which makes OS/2 junk.

>task. But I would consider very seriously to use OS/2 on the RS/6000...

IBM has done the same foot dragging on AIX, and there is noindication
based on past experience that IBM would do any different on any
platform.

>OS/2 for PowerPc is the basis for Warp 5 and has the new device driver
>model and SMP microkernel in place.
>

Well, the current one isn't working, what makes me think that the next
one will?  There is even more problems with SMP...

Best Regards,

Mustafa Soysal

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