Re: upgrade

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Portal39,

As opposed to someone who bets their business on staying with older
versions of OS, with their limitations along with their bugs?


Rob Berendt
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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Portal39@aol.com
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Al.
 you are betting your business so early on V5R2.
Is this a business requirement (none test) or alpha/beta requirement


barsa@barsaconsulting.com writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> Of the eight systems, six reside on three physical LPARs.  If I
explained
> why, I might be accused of making a commercial.
>
> Al
>
> Al Barsa, Jr.
> Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
>
> 400>390
>
> 914-251-1234
> 914-251-9406 fax
>
> http://www.barsaconsulting.com
> http://www.taatool.com
>
>
>
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>
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>                       Portal39@aol.com
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>                       08/24/2002 09:17
>                       PM
>                       Please respond to
>                       midrange-l
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> You have more systems then most customers.
>
> Be nice to hear the tale of how you are using them & why so many? ((
> without
> commercials))
> what is causing you not to use n-way LPAR systems?
>
> barsa@barsaconsulting.com writes:
> >
> > At this point, of our 8 systems, only 1 is at V5R2, but we are in the
> midst
> > of upgrading all of our systems.  I anticipate having about 4 or 5 by
> > Thanksgiving.
> >
> > I am not saying that V5R2 is without bugs, and I am still haggling
with
> IBM
> > about some stuff that I consider to be bugs, and stuff that they say
is
> OK.
> > (It's not called "working as designed", but more like "working as
> coded".)
> > But V5R2 is probably the best RISC release I have ever seen.  Is it
still
> > early, yes.  But it's good.  Probably waiting for the first post G/A
cum
> is
> > a good strategy.
> >
> > Al
> >
> > Al Barsa, Jr.
> > Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
> >
> > I love V5R2.
> >
>

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