Another PC Oddity
Meindert Sprang wrote:
"Les wrote in message
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Meindert Sprang wrote:
"Frank wrote in message
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Yet, there is a world of difference in stability in favour of the OS
X.....
With the difference in revenues and market share between Microsoft and
Apple
in favour of MS, one should expect that Windows would be more stable
than OS
X.
Money cannot buy stability. This being said, I've had XP systems that
showed stability comparable to Linux.
True. But money well spent on decent software engineers can.
Emphasis "can". SFAIK, Brook's "Mythical Man Month" still holds, and
most software defects of any account have little to do with programming
per se. They have more to do with the ... political economy of things.
It's just where
you put your priorities as a company. Time-to-market and biggest market
share or good quality... If your PHB says: ship this code and you know
there are bugs, what do you do?
That depends on the bugs, you, the customer and the PHB.
Meindert
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Les Cargill
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