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IBM not compatible with SP2 | |
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| Time: 10:49 EST/15:49 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Byron Hinson | ||
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It has finally come to completion. The Microsoft Windows XP SP2 was released to manufacturers on Friday. But IBM has already warned its employees not to download the Windows XP SP2, when it becomes available, through an article headlined "To patch - or not to patch" which was posted on its corporate intranet. With close to an estimated 400,000 desktops, IBM is a huge Microsoft customer indeed. The article stated that a large number of IBM's Web applications will need to be tested and some modified to work correctly with SP2. Currently, some high profile, business-critical applications are also known to conflict with SP2. The article went on to say that when the current issues and concerns have been addressed, IBM would deploy a customised version of the Windows XP SP2. |
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| #1 By 24027 (24.10.55.125) at Tuesday, August 10, 2004 04:28:15 PM |
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I work for IBM and have been running XP SP2 since SP2 beta 1. No problems for me. This post was edited by rickp on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at 16:29. |
| #2 By 21203 (4.5.32.137) at Tuesday, August 10, 2004 05:19:25 PM |
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A lot of the "incompatibilities" have nothing to do with SP2 in and of itself. It as to do with potential breakage due to the way client-server apps work, esp with the firewall, non-subnet RPC communications, etc.
In other words, IBM isn't ready with their applications that support the new security paradigms; it isn't SP2 that is at fault here. |
| #3 By 3653 (68.54.230.116) at Tuesday, August 10, 2004 05:24:26 PM |
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IBM has been too busy patching their bug-ridden linux systems to worry about service pack 2.
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2027 |
| #4 By 24029 (24.236.229.15) at Tuesday, August 10, 2004 10:11:36 PM |
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i don't see why this is a news story. Most large corporations with 'standard company' builds hold off on upgrades until any gotcha's are discovered interacting with business critical applications. Then a new 'company build' be be safely deployed without disruption to the business.
CA, EDS, Boeing, etc.... hell, thousands of other companies hold off as well. |
| #5 By 931 (68.19.5.106) at Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:56:30 AM |
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""Those who have Admin privledges will be tempted and many will go ahead and install it no matter what the official policy is""
..try that at my company and we'll be at your desk the next day re-imaging your workstation for the violation. |
