During the holy week this year, I was busy tinkering around with my new toy, a Lenovo Thinkpad T150 with i7 processor and Window 7 Professional 64bit.
I was a little hesitant to order the Window 7 64bit since there is not a lot of software that can run in 64bit environment. However I read that Windows 7 can handle the 32bit application well (http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-windows7-vista64-support-32bit-applications.htm), so I took the plunge.
So far, I’ve installed Visual Foxpro 9 sp2 without a major problem. What is causing me some irritation is when I use UNC to use a file, it tells me that the file is being shared though I already specified to use the file in non-exclusive mode.
Sybase Central of Sql Anywhere Ver 9 did cause a problem, I found out that I need to install a patch.
http://iablog.sybase.com/hinsperg/2010/01/sql-anywhere-on-windows-7/
I was able to install SQL Server 2000 Developer in spite of a warning that this version of SQL is incompatible with the OS. The only thing that I’ve noticed is that I can not create a new table into the database. I overcame this problem by using Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Database Explorer option. I’m sure that a person can use the management tools of SQL Server 2005 or 2008 to handle the SQL 2000 database without any problem.
Btw, since most of my programming application are 32bit application, I needed to use the 32bit ODBC version to add new database connections. The program is found in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe.
I had problems running Lotus Domino Server 8.02 so I decided to use the existing Windows XP mode, so far so good.
I do know that Lotus Notes 8.5 has difficulty running in Windows 7 64bit. It seems that there is a fix for this
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=swg24025721#FP2. I haven’t tested it out yet.
