Jeff Kell wrote:
>
> Here's one for you...
>
> Upgrade HPUX 10.20 to 11.0       ->  12 man-days

To be really fair, HP did have the 9000 system running 11 in about
10 hours..., but after that all the messing around with Oracle
reinstalls and changing kernal parms to make Oracle happy led to
rest of the story...

> Upgrade MPE/iX 5.5 to 6.0pp2     ->   3 man-hours

Nonetheless, 10 vs 3 hours is pretty impressive.  And the MPE time
included installation of stageable reactive patches on top of
6.0 PP2.

If we start adding time for patching, then we have to add time
to both.  Of course, we still haven't resolved some issues with
HPUX patches left over from the migration work.

>
> (Okay, I cheated a bit, had an HPRC-built HPINSTAL CSLT tape).

We had a customized patch tape for the 9000, which isn't the
same thing but does save time.

> (But we had 2 HP SE's onsite for the HPUX one; for MPE just me).

Hey, I was there, too, for the HPUX one, but I went to bed
while Jeff handled MPE...

>
> Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>

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