As the title of the thread really.
It is getting increasingly common to install business related software and find there are major, incredibly obvious bugs.
One example is that even the current version of Exchange 2007 (sp3) or any earlier version simply does not work with Windows server 2008 or R2.
The pre requisites are IIRC: SP1 on server 2008 64 bit and at least Exchange server 2007 SP1.
There is a bug where one of the services is not listening on ip6 and you have to add an entry to the hosts file to get it working.
This bug was identified during the Exchange 2007 SP1 beta, yet has still not been squished.
I have just installed the Vmware vcli on a Windows server 2008 R2 machine and the installer simply doesn't update the path environment variable meaning any attempts to use any of the commands fails. i.e. without a bit of manually doing what the installer missed, the softwqare cannot work at all.
Vmware have actually had even more of a mess up with an old update. I believe after applying it, no VM's could power on with it complaining about a licensing violation. I believe this happened on all installations as well.
One must ask how poor the testing must be to miss these glaring bugs in the first place, let alone the lack of effort to fix them.
Hardware isn't much better. Anyone that has had more than a handful of HP DL380 G5 servers will more than likely had their power supplies go pop. I believe the eventual failure rate was around 75% or higher.
I think things were allowed to get this bad simply because only businesses are involved. It is not in the interests of a business to begin a costly and time consuming legal process against their suppliers or the company that wrote the software. It is cheaper to just implement the workaround.
I think a fair analogy would be that a car company makes a new car where yuo cannot get in the drivers door if the outside temperature is over 22 degrees celsius.
Is this perfectly reasonable of these companies or not?


LinkBack URL
About LinkBacks
Reply With Quote

... I use now a big vent for the whole machine now, but I cant use it forever, it is my grandma's ventilator...