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 rog...@uic.edu ================= "If it wasn't for the last minute... ================= ==================== I wouldn't get anything done." ==================== 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 >
