[Info-vax] Quiet?

[Dave Froble]

On 4/1/2022 2:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 4/1/2022 1:50 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-04-01, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> Of course they could also wait just a few months and go for
>>> VMS x86-64 in a VM under ESXi. But given that it is on Alpha
>>> not Itanium then that may not be the plan.
>>
>> Isn't that timetable just a little optimistic Arne ? :-)
>
> Maybe.
>
>> I doubt that anyone will be running live production payloads on
>> the production-level version of x86-64 VMS until a good year or
>> so after it is released.
>
> They could start test with 9.1 now.
>
> I know the "let us wait to put it in production until 12 months
> after release" mantra. But there is this little problem that
> if everybody follows that then it will not have been used in
> production after 12 month.

Yeah, and if one is waiting for "everyone else" to test it, perhaps "everyone 
else" is waiting for you to test it.

Perhaps better if it is used in parallel for testing, and if it works, then work it.


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