[Info-vax] to upgrade or not to upgrade

[Neil Rieck]

On May 19, 2:34 pm, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
undress to reply) wrote:
> For various reasons, my planned upgrade from 7.3-2 to 8.3 was delayed.  
> Soon, I will have time for it, but am wondering if it is worth the
> trouble.  My current patches seem OK, and I have all the patches which
> were available up until the lockdown, both for 7.3-2 and 8.3.  Now with
> no hobbyist patch access and, as far as I can tell, none on the horizon,
> what do folks here recommend?  My choices are 7.3-2 or 8.3, at the patch
> level available last October.  AFAIK there are no serious problems with
> my current patch level.  What about 7.3-2 or 8.3 as of last October?
>
> It might be the last hobbyist upgrade.  :-(
>
> I've still had no luck in organising some sort of hobbyist patch access,
> neither for free nor for a (reasonable) fee.  If anyone has any
> suggestions, feel free to contact me via email.

At an OpenVMS TUD (technical update days) seminar in 2005, a presenter
from Bruden OSSG ( http://www.brudenossg.com/ ) stated "every release
of OpenVMS has resulted in a performance improvements". Since that
seminar, we have done ad-hoc performance tests before/after our
OpenVMS upgrades and I can tell you that the guy from Bruden was
correct. Even if it was just a percent or two each time.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/OpenVMS.html