[Info-vax] Quiet?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-04-01, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> 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.
>

You should be doing the tests against the actual version you are
thinking of putting into production and 9.1 doesn't even have native
compilers yet. :-)

> 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.
>

My choice of wording was precise when I talked about live production
payloads. :-)

There's nothing to stop them testing the production version for
a year or so, until users trust it enough to start using it in
production.

Simon.

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