[THIN] Re: PS 4.5 upgrade? or PS 4
- From: Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:39:09 -0000 (GMT)
Malcolm / Andrew,
I am working on a project in the same situation. We are about to go down
that track, it's actually a Metaframe XPe to PS migration. We haven't made
decision on 4.0 or 4.5.
We are just about to do project brief and design, so I guess we will go
from there.
Berny
> Malcolm,
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> We're in a similar boat. The project I'm working on has a pilot that
> starts
> end of March (hopefully)
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> For 4.5 - the license component is different, service names are different,
> management is different (move away from cmc for instance), performance is
> different.
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> Its not an 'upgrade' to 4 - it's a new code base. So really, you wouldn't
> update, you'd ideally start again (or uninstall/reinstall)
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> Given we're going into pilot - with a live service anticipated q4 this
> year
> it was deemed less costly to pilot with 4.5 to realise any issues rather
> than to pilot and implement 4.0 to have the same exercise within almost a
> year.
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> Plus the new auditing and security features were viewed as Good Things to
> have.
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> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> Of Malcolm Bruton
> Sent: 02 March 2007 13:05
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] PS 4.5 upgrade? or PS 4
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>
> Guys
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> I know this is fairly early for definitive answers but hoping somebody has
> some good ideas.
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> We are embarking on an upgrade now from XPe to PS 4.x.
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> We had planned to go to 4 and then 4.5 later in the year. We were
> anticipating that the 4.5 release would be a bit late but they have
> surprised us with the release before the end of 1st quarter.
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> Our pilot is not due to start till the end of March.
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> Thought as to use PS 4 or rather 4.5 to save us some time later in the
> year.
> Concerned about using the latest bleeding edge technology. After all
> citrix
> is not known for it's pristine bug free software at the first attempt.
> Thoughts on if we did go with 4.5 and had problems, citrix turn around
> time
> on fixes? I guess I'm thinking a pilot is a good time to find the issues
> and as long as we have good turn around on fixes it shouldn't be too bad.
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> Anyone got any good feedback already about how smooth 4.5 works or plans
> to
> implements rapidly? Any one been running the beta for a long time and
> found
> it quite reliable?
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> I've also heard rumours that moving from 4 to 4.5 is not quite as easy as
> say going from PS3 to PS4 as there are that much more components and
> configuration to think about. Is this true?.
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> Thanks Malcolm
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