RE: MS Vista and iSeries Access support

They made over $4B in pre tax profits this past quarter - that tells you a

lot of customers like their products.

I can't help but comment on this :-)  When Microsoft makes money it means
they changed something and want you to pay for it.  M$ makes money from
selling software.  If they don't come out with new versions and force you to
upgrade they don't make money.  If you factor out forced upgrades I bet M$
wouldn't make half of that $4B.  One just can't simply equate how much money
a company makes to how happy their clients are with their products.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 7:10 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: MS Vista and iSeries Access support

On 11/13/06, DeLong, Eric <EDeLong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<Steve said...>
what technical reason could there be that it would not work? MSFT is 
really good about maintaining backwards compatibility.
<End>

Really?  That sure doesn't seem to match MY experience with MSFT.....

Have you been drinking Mr. Bill's happy juice again?

If not, then perhaps you can explain what you mean by this....

I can try ... What problems have you had with MSFT software?  My experience
as a programmer is that MSFT is by far the best in terms of the
programability of their products. Linux does not have an exception handling
model, no basic call stack support and knows nothing of managed code. The
end result is a Perl program knows nothing of Java which cant interact with
SQL procedures, PHP, etc. At least no where to the degree that modern
applications need these languages to work together.  The i5 is a bit better
because it has 15 YO ILE but the grafting on of PASE binaries and SQL
procedures has been kludgy at best. MSFT's .NET is proving itself to be
everything the smart people
who created it said it would be.   Programming .NET, esp at the
beginner's level, has never been easier.   They made over $4B in pre
tax profits this past quarter - that tells you a lot of customers like their
products.

-Steve