[Info-vax] Fieldtest of 8.4.

[Arne Vajhøj]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Bob Koehler wrote:
>>> In article <mp5sm.11621$U5.154372 at newsb.telia.net>, 
>>> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan-Erik_S=F6derholm?= writes:
>>>> http://preview.tinyurl.com/r6ynpt
>>>
>>>    I wonder if they'd take a participant as a Hobbyist instead of via
>>>    DSPP?
>>>
>>>    All I need is the binaries, including compatable layered products.
>>
>> Why not ask them?
>>
>> It is rather cheap to send an email!
>>
>> And it would make some sense anyway. Hobbyists are
>> much more likely to be willing to upgrade and see
>> how it works than production which will wait
>> until it is seen stable and development which
>> will wait until production starts talking about it.
> 
> Problem is that I see very few additions on the parts
> that might interest most hobbyists (like DCL, lexicals
> and so on). 3->6 member shadowsets and cluster-over-IP
> might not be the first things needed in a hobbyist system.
> Maybe TCPIP 5.7 (but I havn't seen the full new feat list).

Hobbyist are usually interested in running the latest stuff.

And even though they may not test all the new enterprise
stuff then they will at least regression test a lot of
existing functionality.

Arne