Powerhouse 7.10/8.30 VMS upgrade (survey results - sort of)

[Lemin, Graeme]

Hi Ingemar

It's winter here, and we're still working.

We are looking at upgrading to 8.30, but we need to be able to convince
management that it's something that MUST be done, and that there will be no
negative impacts to the services we provide.  Although we haven't
contributed to the discussion, we've been watching this subject with
interest.

Our hardware and O/S is being upgraded at the same time, so we're possibly
looking at ES45 processors running VMS 7.3.  

regards

Graeme Lemin
Melbourne, Australia

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Olson, Ingemar [SMTP:IOlson@saputo.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, 20 August 2002 9:29 am
> To:	'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'
> Subject:	Powerhouse 7.10/8.30 VMS upgrade (survey results - sort of)
> 
> On August 8th I wrote:
> 
> > There has been very little discussion on this group about 
> > upgrades to 8.30.
> >
> > Either that means that few have attempted it yet or that no-one 
> > has had any issues worth posting. A perusal of the upgrade guide 
> > leads me to suspect that it may be the former.
> >
> > How about it folks? 
> > If you're on VMS and 7.10, what are your plans?
> >
> > You may reply privately and I will post the results when they're in.
> >
> > We are on OpenVMS (Alpha) 7.1-2 using Powerhouse 7.10G1 with RMS 
> > and Oracle RDB 7.0-21, so issues relating to those are of course 
> > what I'm most interested in hearing.
> 
> Surprisingly (to me) I only got a handful of responses (5) and since
> it's been a while since the last one I don't expect any more now.
> 
> And the summary:
> o Only 1 person had actually gone to 8.30, and had no major glitches.
> o Two people had gone to intermediate versions (8,10, 8.20) and both 
>   had negative comments ("struggling without POW", "very painful") 
>   although the latter (at least) is proceeding to 8.30.
> o One person is intending to, but is not in a rush.
> o One person has no plans to upgrade (system on life-support).
> 
> In other words, the complete gamut!
> 
> However, I can't believe there are only 6 VMS / Powerhouse shops out
> there. Did I not ask the right question? No-one working in the summer?
> 
> If anyone else would like to comment, even if your situation doesn't
> exactly match that in my question, I will re-summarize the results.
> 
> Ingemar Olson
> 
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