of the smattering of IBM s/w we have here, I've noticed that IBM seems to love to take advantage of "undocumented features" (read: bugs) in MSFT products. When MSFT fixes the bug in an SP, the IBM s/w breaks. We recently had a bad case of this w/Client Access and an RPC Service patch for Windows 2000 from MSFT.

So, imho, there's blame enough here for everyone.