Re: Windows clustering???

From: Tim Gorman <tim_at_sagelogix.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:54:34 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D977A.20031210195434@fatcity.com>

This is a small, static, but fiercely loyal group of VMS users for HP to milk. OpenVMS is money in the bank for HP, as it was for Compaq and DEC. Even the bean-counters understand the insanity of shutting off a guaranteed, endless, and highly-profitable revenue stream upon which they do not have to expend any marketing or sales resources...

Officially, they currently promise OpenVMS support through 2012 or thereabouts, I believe.

In Colorado Springs (at the DEC-then-Compaq-then-HP hosting center), there is a VMS cluster hosting an Rdb-based application that has been continuously available for the past 11-12 years. Zero downtime for the application. Absolutely stunning.

on 12/10/03 2:14 PM, Tanel Poder at tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee wrote:

> Maybe you all already know that, but HP is planning to support OpenVMS on
> their Itanium servers :)
> 
> Tanel.
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>> I'm guessing they're not running Oracle on this VMS cluster. I really

> liked

>> the part about "the most difficult part was explaining to managers why it
>> was unnecessary to shut systems down, even during the physical

> relocation."

>>
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13002
>>
>> Imagine if DEC had any marketing...
>>
>> Rich
>>
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