[Info-vax] VMS83A_UPDATE V11

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<dad1dcaf-d75c-4f11-9293-14a7d4b340f1 at p30g2000vbt.googlegroups.com>,
Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes: 

> On Dec 4, 11:49=A0am, Volker Halle <volker_ha... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Peter,
> >
> > VMS83A_UPDATE-V1100 has been put 'on hold'.
> >
> > Seehttp://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId.=
> ...
> >
> > Volker.
> 
> Way back in 1987 I started working on VMS systems in Toronto. At that
> time my employer had a policy to never install the next release of any
> OS software. What is bad about this point of view is that SOMEBODY has
> got to be first. Since those days I have adopted the policy of only
> installing UPDATE-X when others are installing UPDATE-X-plus-one. Like
> before though, I am relying on SOMEBODY ELSE to do my real-world
> testing. If life were fair we would do more rigorous testing of these
> updates but life isn't fair meaning we just don't have the people or
> money to do it. So we rely on the vendor (HP).

Reminds me of an interview with Francis Rossi from Status Quo.  He said 
they never play songs from the latest album on tour, because people want 
to hear the older stuff.  By the time the NEXT tour comes, these songs 
are old enough that people want to hear them.  :-)