RE: upgrade

["Andy Nolen-Parkhouse" <aparkhouse@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

For those who don't have the luxury of multiple machine (either separate
boxes or partitions), waiting for the second cume is always going to be
a good idea.  They are putting their production platforms on the line
and do not have a great deal of time to deal with the things that crop
up.

I think there will always be a cadre of folks who will do that initial
testing at first availability:
- business partners and software vendors who need to test their
applications.
- customers such as yourself who have test/development platforms.
- customers who take delivery of a machine with the default of the
current recently-released OS.

I don't think that I would be worried about the pace of release adoption
slowing down; particularly now that LPAR can be implemented on a partial
processor.  I think more people may take advantage of test environments
as this capability becomes more widespread.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> If everyone waits until the first or second cume after GA before going
to
> the release, then is that theory valid anymore?  Or will it keep
pushing
> back until the nth cume CD?