Re: Press releases from Oracle

Malcolm Dunnett wrote:
it is terribly frustrating that it's taken Oracle this long (I
mean, really, it should only take a few weeks to re-compile and
test the Alpha version of Oracle and release it for Integrity -
why is it taking Oracle over a year and a half?


Hadn't there been some statement a few years ago (probably before the
alpha manslaughter) that Oracle had promised to release VMS versions in
synch with the rest of the world ?
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