0n Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 06:43:01AM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote: 

    >On 10/16/2006 5:36 AM, Ilya Voronin wrote:
    >> What about maintenance pack 4 for NetBackup 6.0?
    >> There were rumors earlier this month that MP4 will be released on 
October 15...
    >
    >It has not yet been released.  We installed a pre-release of MP4 last 
    >Thursday but I personally don't expect it to go GA until the end of the 
    >month or thereabouts (depending on what is found between now and then 
    >and I heard that there is at least one build more recent than what we 
    >installed).  Don't forget that one significant bug can set them back a 
    >week from the time a developer codes a fix to the build and internal 
    >test processes and possible customer testing.
    >
    > From what I've seen so far, MP4 is a *lot* better than any other 
    >combination of maintenance paks and patches we've applied to 6.0.  We'll 
    >be going over our outstanding bug list in more detail today but I'm 
    >confident that our most critical issues have all been resolved.  In our 
    >environment (and we're all different), this release looks solid so far. 
    >  Realize, however, that I've only run a few days and didn't pay really 
    >close attention to it over the weekend - yes, I briefly looked at our 
    >reports and it looks good, but that's different from an in-depth 
    >analysis of our issues and status reports.

Ed, how does one get access to a 'pre-release' ?

 -aW