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  3. November 2006

Re: MS Vista and iSeries Access support

Steve Richter wrote:


But vendors are given plenty of notice when
changes like this are coming down the pike. IBM has probably had Vista
for 12 months now, esp the technical specs. If they have not been able
to test everything and assure their users that client access will
work, then that is their fault.

-Steve
First, one does not do testing from technical specs because, second, those technical specs keep changing and, three, how the programmer implements those technical specs is open to question. And just how is one supposed to do that testing when the playing field keeps changing?
I spoke with an IBM exec at COMMON prior to Win2K's release. IBM had access to the code, but only in a clean room environment. And as each new build was sent over from MS, testing started again. After all, they are known for fixing one thing and breaking other things (sounds like my code). There may or may not be a similar relationship between MS and the major players in the field (IBM, Symantec, etc.) as regards Vista.
History (experience) does show that IBM is better at writing operating systems than MS. As a back up to that statement, a technical writer (forget his name) for PC Week said, when W2K was released that, "If Microsoft ever learns to write operating systems the way that IBM does for the AS/400, they might be on to something." It's been a few years, but I've seen nothing to indicate that that has changed. 


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