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Re:IBM Design by y04nn on Thursday February 11, 2016 @11:24AM (#11081088)
Of course it's very important to have a beautiful Z System mainframes. I like the effort they are putting into it, but do they customers care (even for the software)?
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Re:IBM Design by dave5104 on Thursday February 11, 2016 @11:29AM (#11081117)
Design is more than how something looks. To reframe your question, you might say "but do their customers care if the stuff they buy works?" To which I hope they do care.
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Re:IBM Design by jchendy on Thursday February 11, 2016 @11:32AM (#11081142)
I definitely agree with your point, so I apologize for nit picking.

IMO, "does it work?" is a QA question. The design question would be "does it do anything useful?"

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Re:IBM Design by mkohlmyr on Thursday February 11, 2016 @11:48AM (#11081252)
FWIW Since IBM bought Silverpop the product has had a gigantic design (and functionality) upgrade. It is very noticeable and has made the product feel far less painful to use.
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