Re: Another difference between platforms...
- From: John.Mckown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (McKown, John)
- Date: 30 Jun 2008 11:01:24 -0700
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[mailto:IBM-MAIN@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary Green
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:36 PM
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Subject: Another difference between platforms...
Back in the 80's we mainframe(rs) went from 24 bit to 31 bit,
then towards the end of the millennium, we started migrating
to 64 bit with the introduction of z/OS. During all this
time I do not recall any of the applications we ran on the
older platforms ever "going dark" because of the change. We
all have a ton of stuff in our shop that was written decades
ago and is still humming along just fine thank you. Then why
is it every time Mickeysoft changes their platform,
everything we were using must change or be left behind?
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArt
icleBasic&articleId=9103238&source=NLT_ES&nlid=42
Gary Green
Enforced obsolescense! If the old apps continued to run on the new OS,
how would MS force people to upgrade to the new application software?
There is a lot of "chatter" than MS does this deliberately to force
people to buy new versions of MS Office when they get a new OS, which is
usually forced when they get new hardware. PROFIT!
Personally, I think it is also because Windows is designed "ad hoc" with
no real stragetic planning. I've also heard that every MS programmer
things that they can do it better and so the API changes "as needed"
with no regard to backwards compatability.
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John McKown
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