By the way, the September issue of "Storage" magazine also has "upgrade
path bumpy for major backup app" as the cover story.   It is about NBU 6
but seems to focus on one company's strategy for migrating to it and why
they are holding off on MP3.  For whatever reason, the magazine's site
only goes to the August issue.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Wayne T
Smith
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Fame at last.

A couple of things come to mind with this article and the current 
discussion here:

  - Symantec has shown nothing to imply they might consider shutting 
down their forums or threaten or execute lawsuits.  Implying otherwise 
is, at least, unwarranted, IMHO.  In fact, Symantec, in this article, 
shows little or no interest at all ... in anything.

  - Mike Adams, Group Manager of Symantec for NetBackup, is quoted in 
the article.  Asked about Veritas v6.0 acceptance, he replies "Anecdotal

evidence" is that there is "good uptake,"'.   I'd say we have anecdotal 
evidence that Veritas/Symantec pays more attention to the cash-cow for 
immediate stockholder gratification than its customers.  I prefer the 
legacy management method where the only thing more important than 
"customer-driven" is quality, where a new version is usable out of the 
box and impact of problems after the first update are minimal and touch
few.

With articles such as this, perhaps Symantec marketing will realize they

need a new feature that dramatically decreases the operational cost of 
NetBackup.  Design for high quality and ease of debugging problems would

considerably lessen my inclination to look elsewhere.  What's yours?

cheers, wayne

Mansell, Richard wrote, in part,  on 9/6/2006 8:39 PM:
> I see some of you were also contacted by Sharon at Computerworld:-
>
>
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/090506-users-suffer-major-problems
-with.html 
>   
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