Re: Windows is 'collapsing,' Gartner analysts warn

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck Lewis wrote:
> LOL - no lie. I saw that yesterday and a number of analysts are nailing
> Gartner for it. Interesting seeing them eat their own :-)
>   
What I find interesting is how many of these analysts don't understand 
the difference between "legacy system code" and "legacy application 
code".  The Gartner report understands the difference, and clearly 
indicates that it's the system code that is failing.  When they talk 
about "20 years of legacy code" they aren't talking about applications, 
nobody is running applications from 1988.  No, they're talking about the 
kernel, parts of which undoubtedly extend back that far and have been 
thunked up to the present day.

Gartner says you need application backwards compatibility, through 
virtualization.  Hmm.  An operating system that can be extended to new 
hardware without affecting existing codebase, and can even support older 
architectures using virtualization.  Sounds like a page out of the IBM i 
handbook.

Joe