From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]
On Behalf Of Cruice, Daniel (US -
Glen Mills)
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007
10:04 AM
To: Steven L. Sesar; Ed Wilts
Cc:
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu]
Netbackup 6.5 - Anyone actually using it?
I am pretty new to the whole NBU
environment, pretty much got involved w/ 6.0MP4 so I missed the
“fun” of the 6.0 roll-out. What is the consensus w/
6.5? Even thought it was just released, what is the comfort level within
the NBU environment? Do you guys think this release will be minimal with
bugs or are we to prepare for a disaster rolling it out without waiting for
MP1? I know that is a shot in the dark question and guess a little of
trying to predict the future, but I simply trying to determine if we roll it
out or hang tight for a while. Feels like going to the Dentist, you know
you have to go to get something fix, but you know there is a possibility of
pain involved…J
From: Steven L. Sesar [mailto:ssesar AT mitre DOT org]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:06
AM
To: Ed Wilts
Cc:
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu]
Netbackup 6.5 - Anyone actually using it?
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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