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Just because they give you a C compiler and a library to link doesn't mean you blame the compiler developer for letting the user shoot himself in the foot.
by zbowling 13y ago
Just because they give you a C compiler and a library to link doesn't mean you blame the compiler developer for letting the user shoot himself in the foot.
- lisper 13y agoThat's true, but it's a straw-man argument, because Microsoft did not just produce the compiler. They produced the compiler AND the operating system AND two of the three applications in question.
- weland 13y agoIf I understood it correctly, the problem isn't that Oracle is using the Microsoft libraries and compilers incorrectly, it's the other way around. The two applications that are broken when using Oracle's ODBC drivers are actually Microsoft's, so it superficially looks like the company with the user-facing problems either doesn't want to fix their bugs or doesn't want to work around the bugs in the ODBC driver. This isn't too uncommon, actually, but what usually happens is that the company with the upper hand prevails and the other one has to fix the bugs, lest they piss off their customers who have to leave. However, when both companies keep their users in tight vendor lockdowns, they just wave their cocks around for a few months blaming each other and settle for the users working around, since it's the cheapest alternative.