I think some big IT companies

-- Looking at the chaos of it in the Internet

I have been engaged in it for a long time and have been engaged in many companies. Since dos, Microsoft and IBM have been involved at the same time, because dos was developed by the two companies for a long time, Microsoft called "MS-DOS ", IBM is called the PC-DOS ". The two dos systems were later incompatible. That is to say, even if the same version and command file were copied to the other party, they could not be run and report version errors.

Later, Microsoft learned from Apple. The pursuit of friendly interfaces and good user experience has always been Microsoft's goal. Microsoft seems to have never said how good its software is, however, users can fully feel it when using it. The user interaction interface is very user-friendly, and sometimes it makes people feel a little too much. For example, if I access a website named ftp.why00000.com, enter the IE Address Bar, and press enter, ie will automatically complete the previous http: // protocol header for the website, but for ftp.why00000.com, Web sites starting with FTP, ie is not automatically completed into a http://ftp.why100000.com, but a ftp://ftp.why100000.com. IE, why do you think I have to visit the FTP site ?!

But IBM is different. I used IBM software, except DOS, and earlier I used IBM-Aix, which was the DB2 database that was always tepid and UNIX. We must admit that AIX is a good thing. With the powerful and mighty IBM "Black King Kong" minicomputer, the computing power must be very good. However, we have to admit that the AIX character interface is very poor, and DoS users are not comfortable with it: it does not support row editing operations that people are used, when you press the Del key, a string of strange characters appears. to delete a character, you must move the cursor to the back of the character and press the backspace button. The most uncomfortable thing is that a long string of commands, once an error occurs, after you press enter to execute the command, you must start from scratch next time! This causes the operator to keep typing like a typist. And this runs a memory resident in the MS-DOSProgramDoskey can be perfectly solved. Press the up arrow key to bring up the command you typed last time and edit it again. The VI editor is better, but because it is still designed based on character commands, you need to remember the combination of buttons for a large push. People who are using it at the beginning cannot enter the editing status at all, after you type the text, you do not know how to exit the software.

Because of the psychological shadows left by the use of IBM software, I have been afraid of IBM's things. I have never dared to try out IBM Lotus Notes for years. Later, IBM was known as the "largest" software company in the world, but I had little access to WebSphere and other Java technologies.

IBM impressed me most about its PC. the original name of the computer was "ibm pc". Although Apple, campaq, HP, and Dell all produced computers, but IBM has always been the originator of PC. In fact, the big, medium, and minicomputer of the blue giant is doing better, and its profit may come mainly from this part. Because it is almost monopolized, "the emperor's daughter will not marry ", the price is naturally high. The so-called "largest software company", I don't know what the basis was at that time. Is there a lot of software products, or is it selling a lot of money? -- At that time, Bill Gates was still working to "give every family in the world a computer ".

Probably because IBM is a hardware engineer, and their work style has been as stiff and rigid as steel plates. This is still the case till now. If you don't believe it, you can go to the IBM technical documents. The documents are carefully and methodically worn in front and back, and always look like a legal document. I don't know whether documents are translated by machines or by people like machines. I think of this as an IBM style. Some may like IBM's rigor and specification, but I don't like it. In fact, Microsoft, sun, HP, Dell, and other large companies have such problems in their documents, which I do not like.

However, I like the legal documents they write. For example, the disclaimers attached to their products have a clear logic, impeccable structure, and a well-formed structure. It's all about the user's mistakes, clean yourself. Their lawyers are like programmers. Are these common problems of international "big companies" or Western companies? (Note: I do not fully agree with the Taiji logic of Chinese people who say "Tao can be very Tao" or "yes .)

The collision between western logic and Eastern thinking is always awkward. We hope that integration and complementarity will not generate some geeks, but will produce better cultures and logics. Let's look at some of us who sometimes find several e-Words in Chinese. I don't know if this is an effective solution, or do we really grasp the essence?

Zhang Qing (mesh)
2008-5-1