It appears to be same the situation for Windows 7, as well. IBM now
explicitly says the current TSM client versions are not supported on
Windows 7, though I can say that 5.5.2 "appeared to work" on 7beta.
We're going to have a whole bunch of Snow Leapord and Win7 users this
fall. When you go to your local store in just a couple of weeks, that's
all you're going to see to buy - Macs with 10.6 and Windows boxes with
7. Apple and MS have been duking it out in TV commercials for a while,
creating demand for both OSs. We can't say "no" to these users - they're
going to show up with these systems and demand to be backed up.
Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rogerd AT uic DOT edu
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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Richard Sims wrote:
>On Sep 16, 2009, at 5:44 PM, Remco Post wrote:
>
>>
>> Given that there are about 0 new features in 10.6 (according to
>> apple), I don't expect that IBM will have to change anything in the
>> TSM client. Apple even forgot to use zfs as an option for the root
>> filesystem.... Anyway, I guess we'll have to wait for IBM to finish
>> testing the client on MacOS X.6 to formally state that it is
>> supported.
>>
>
>Snow Leopard does add some new features; but the purpose of the
>release is to construct infrastructure as the basis for further OS X
>development (and cross-hardware-pollination with iPhone and the
>upcoming tablet). The internal changes can have a significant impact
>upon applications, depending upon what they are doing.
>Apple wanted to pursue ZFS; but complications with Sun's licensing
>terms, and then the situation with Sun in general in the Oracle
>transition, resulted in uncertain conditions.
>
>Last year, IBM had made noises of increased partnership with Apple,
>but it appears that TSM has once again waited for general
>availability of a new OS X release before embarking upon development
>to accommodate it, which once again disappoints the customer base.
>
> Richard Sims
>
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