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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
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