Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup 6.5 - Anyone actually using it?

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"Steven L. Sesar" <ssesar AT mitre DOT org>

To:

Ed Wilts <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org>

Date:

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:05:42 -0400

Ed Wilts wrote:

MP1 probably won’t be out until the end of the year and if nobody upgrades to 6.5, we won’t see many fixes in MP1 – that’s the problem that made 6.0MP3 still a rotten release. Once users upgraded to MP3, some of the critical bug reports rolling in got the executive’s attention and 6.0 didn’t stabilize until MP4.

You illustrate a good point. In my not-so-humble opinion, Symantec has relied way too much on R&D in the field by their customers. I get that where there's software, there may be bugs, but this product was released in a broken state. Their QA really dropped the ball with this release.


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