[Info-vax] to upgrade or not to upgrade

[Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOeGER]

In article <9fadc746-55eb-4886-b994-564bac26f4f2 at x6g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
>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.

Except on Itanic - where V8.4 (caused by the non-integration of the ECO
VNMS831H1_IA64_TIE into vanilla V8.4 and additionally the lack of ECO
VMS84I_IA64_TIE) brought us again the performance of vanilla V8.3-1H1
(means image activation times of seconds - instead of fractions of seconds -
for translated images)...

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Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTÖGER
Network and OpenVMS system specialist
E-mail  Peter at LANGSTOeGER.at
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