I guess Florian wanted to reply to the list. Regards, Berry.
Florian Bilek schreef: > Dear all, > > Even I couldn't agree more with the statements about sticking to the > available software versions, this does not reflect reality. As > software is mostly developed outside of the organisations they want to > use it, nobody is taking care of certain maintenace levels. When it is > available, when it is fits to the requirements then the management > wants to have it. And when you as responsible for the zSeries tell > them, well we can not do it because we have SLES 10 and SLES 11 > requires a new mainframe, I guess you can imagine what the reaction of > the management will be: Burry this bloddy thing an replace it > immediately by more modern hardware. > > In my opinon the zSeries has to be as flexible as possible in order to > have a chance to survive against the other platforms. It is not that > you simply buy a new zSeries every year. > > So I think there is a real need to support JAVA 1.6 also on SLES 10 > and I really don't see why this should not be possible. > > Best regards, > Florian > > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Berry van Sleeuwen > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I wish we could manage the programmers :-). Some do program with a > version in mind. Especially when new functions are incorporated into a > new software product. Or when some product requires (or thinks it > requires) a certain version. As much as we would like to we can't > always > control the programmers or software vendors. > > I do agree that a programmer should code for the available version but > it's not always that simple. > > Berry. > > > Mark Post schreef: > > "The programmers may prefer..." That's a management issue, and > should be addressed by them. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> with the message: INFO LINUX-390 > or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > > > > -- > Best regards > > Florian Bilek ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
