In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 01/31/2006
at 07:34 PM, Skip Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>My view as a customer is that 'permanent' product maintenance ought
>to be delivered in ++MOD format. ZAPs should be relegated strictly to
>APAR fixes: emergency workarounds that alleviate pain in the short
>term while a module revision is being developed and packaged.
AOL!
>SMP/E enforces the straight and narrow.
Only with good service packaging. Some vendors are notorious for poor
packaging, and there's not much SMP can do about that.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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