I have never disagreed with Steve before, but it's time.  It is
ridiculous that HP
holds a mature system for software.  Note:

1. The fixed software can be shipped and installed much faster
than the hardware.
2. the buyer can be warned to wait and/or
3.  An earlier version of MPE, without the bug can be shipped.

HP should give the buyer an OPTION as to what he wants to do in
light
of the problem.  Being able to install the 3000 and check it out
could easily
save a week in a time tight situation.

Come on, HP, give your users some credit.

Nick D.

Dirickson Steve wrote:
>
>         <<Delaying shipments of HP3000s because of the DBUTIL bug in
> PowerPatch 5 doesn't make any sense to me.>>
>
> It might.
>
>         <<That's one we can work around.>>
>
> Not necessarily. As we kind-of discussed last week, this doesn't look like a
> problem with either DBUTIL or IMAGE, but smells like something in the file
> system or storage management area. It could be a pretty serious problem, and
> the DBUTIL erase operation just happens to cause it to show up, and in a
> relatively benign fashion at that. If there is, in fact, something
> fundamentally and seriously broken in the MPE/iX file system after PP5 is
> installed, it makes perfect sense to me to stop delivering it to customers
> until the defect is repaired.
>
> Steve