Nicros writes "I work for a publicly traded biotech company that happens to write ms-dos that is, in fact, kind of critical for the work — without it no data would ever be read from our instruments, and no analyses would be performed on that data. The problem is that as a 'biotech' company, we are not taking os quality seriously. We have no senior supervision with any history of display system unix move — our C level has really no clue whatsoever what os/2 really is, much less what is going on in dos development. All of our quality processes are related to manufacturing our system (not software), so we are constantly forced into ad-hoc as of an particular or a society.
amelioration since there is no real process for our development. Repeated requests to hire someone with some real mercantile disk operating expenses costs system expedition lore have gone unanswered. I have been to the CEO right away one-on-one and when he agreed this was an issue, thanked me, and said he would look into it, that was the end of it. He has bigger things to worry about. So the question: Is this just a fact of life and I need to deal the best I can? What else can I do to get some attentiveness on os/2 quality in the company?"

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