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[Veritas-bu] v5.0 or v5.1?

2004-08-18 16:23:03
Subject: [Veritas-bu] v5.0 or v5.1?
From: wtsmith AT maine DOT edu (Wayne T Smith)
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:23:03 -0400
Thanks to everyone that has participated in this thread! 

I also received some private replies from a few people. They were quite 
happy with the v5.1 release.

Most everyone related their experience, and all are helpful.  Thanks!

However, there's one area of concern that wasn't addressed (in the posts 
I've seen): What is the maintenance model for v5.1?  Obviously v5.0 will 
have quarterly maintenance packs ... Veritas, in fact, just released 
MP3.   

How will the v5.1 release maintenance be handled?  Will we have v5.1MPn 
someday, or some other way to get fixes and fresh bugs to us?  Or is 
v5.1 a dead end release?   It seems to me that v5.1 had a base code of 
approximately v5.0MP1, so I expected maintenance for v5.1 to appear with 
or close to v5.0MP2 and then now at v5.0MP3. But no maintenance to the 
v5.1 release has surfaced.

If this is published information, could someone point me in the right 
direction, please?

If not, and and Dilbert is reading this mailing list, please get your 
boss to tell us the story. ;-)

cheers, wayne

About a week ago, I wrote, in part:

> My media kits for v5.1 just arrived, so now I'm wondering ...
>
> Should I stay with v5.0 or move to v5.1 (solaris server, if that 
> matters)?
>
> There has been much discussion of  v5.0 on this mailing list and the 
> newsgroup, but very little about v5.1.  Are you running 5.1? Happily?
>
> In my limited experience, v5.0 has been a very poor quality release.  
> S0428, MP1 and MP2 have made it significantly better, and it looks 
> like MP3 is imminent.
>
> On the other hand, 5.1 promises support for VMWARE and performance 
> improvements for Vault, both of which would be welcome.  V5.1 has been 
> out for a while.  Is a Maintenance Pack going to be available for it 
> in the near future?


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