Re: Woes on ANZOBJCVN...

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden H. Leverich wrote:
> How come, when MS changes something that makes old code break everyone
> yells at MS and points out how we never have this problem on System i,
> but when IBM changes stuff that makes old code break it's the vendor's
> fault? Hmmmm???? 
>   

Other people will probably chime in, Walden, but I think it's because 
IBM gives everybody a long lead time, plenty of notice, and a specific 
way to address the problem, and it's usually pretty simple.  In this 
case, it's as easy as recompiling your programs.  There have been 
numerous occasions when Microsoft has completely broken backwards 
compatibility at both the source and object level (VB.NET being one of 
the classic examples).

But that's just my personal opinion.  YMMV :)

Joe