At 09:09 AM 3/7/2011 -0800, Reese, Terry wrote:
[snip]
> Regardless of work I was doing with OCLCs tools, MarcEdit would have
> shifted to the .NET 4.0 framework no later than June. This is something
> that is being done for three reasons:
>1) The .NET 3.0 framework (which MarcEdit currently uses) is over 3
>years old. In many ways, .NET is like Java. As they make changes,
>enhancements, etc., they change the framework number. There are simply
>some enhancements to the framework and some bugs that have been fixed that
>I would like to stop working around. With OCLC announcing that Connexion
>will be moved to .NET Framework 4 that was enough for me to decide to make
>that change.
[snip]
Terry,
Unfortunately, there are "system requirements" dictated by Microsoft -
which include SP3 for WinXP. This is something that for various [security,
functional, financial and esoteric] reasons I refuse to do on the many
WinXP machines that we run at our institution - we decided, over many years
and after a huge expenditure of time and effort on SP3, Vista and Win7,
that WinXP SP2 would be the last Microsoft OS that we would use while
migrating to Linux. This maintains backwards compatibility with dozens of
useful applications that are intrinsic to our operations, but denies us the
possibility of using MarcEdit 5.5 on the two machines currently using it.
We have not yet used the Linux version - but will try over the next few
days and look into staff training requirements. I can only request that,
whatever the importance of OCLC to you and some other users, you maintain
the very high quality of service to the majority. Having been involved in
software development and deployment for more years than I care to remember,
I can assure you that a majority of worldwide users do *not* follow the
Microsoft gravy train when it comes to OS updates and the associated licensing.
Best regards,
Paul
Tired old sys-admin.
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