[Info-vax] VMS83A_UPDATE V11

[Simon Clubley]

On 2009-12-10, Michael Kraemer <m.kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
> In article <4B21294E.6010106 at bigpond.com>, "Tim E. Sneddon"
><tim.sneddon at bigpond.com> writes:
>
>> 
>> That is 1.6 patches per month.  What's the excuse for 8.3-1H1?  I'm
>> not up to date, yet have 69 patches installed.  That was since
>> Nov 2007.  So, that's 2 years and 2.9 patches per month. 
>
> Which is not that far (and increasing) from Mr. Main's 
> notorious sermon about "xx patches per month" for the other OS's.
>

It's even worse when you realise that, for Linux, it's patch count includes
applications which, on VMS, are either third party applications or simply
don't exist.

(FYI, my Linux machines at home and work are RedHat based. I'm not familiar
with the patch policies of the other Linux distributions.)

Simon.

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