A fair question. That's based on working with all of the top-ten processors, most or all of whom still use NonStop.
Compaq bought Tandem, HP bought Compaq, then when HP split into HP and HPE, the NonStop business went to HPE. Yes, NonStop is way down from its peak. Credit card processing seems to be one of the places where it's remained strong. But it's still serious enough that HP/HPE (not sure which at the time) recently moved the OS from Itanium to x86 hardware, which was surely a big effort. Of course Itanium was going away, but my point is that if there wasn't still a real business there, that would have been an ideal time to kill it. There are NonStop user groups around the world still, and with the pandemic, they're going virtual. If you're interested, check one out. Good folks, talking about stuff every bit as arcane as what we see on this list! An observation: it seems to me that the smaller platforms do better with user groups. I'm guessing this is because if you have, say, a Windows problem, there are millions of other folks with the same problem, so Googling the problem gets you a solution. If you have a problem with something on a less commonly used platform, a user group is a better bet, although of course lists like this one are also great! So that builds more of a sense of community, which lets user groups thrive. Not that there aren't tons of Windows user groups, but from what I've seen they're run by a couple of die-hards and most of the rest don't participate much, don't show up for many meetings, etc. Maybe that's just my experience. On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 10:10 AM R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote: > W dniu 09.10.2020 o 04:25, zMan pisze: > > Nope, IBM doesn't process 90% of credit card transactions. Most > processors > > are on distributed, with a lot of HPE NonStop in the mix, but also other > > platforms. > > Can you provide any source of this statement? > From my limited knowledge it seems NonStop is declining since it was > merged with Compaq. Or maybe it was merge with HP. > > BTW: Nowadays "distributed" no longer means Sun, HP-UX, or Tandem (not > to mention DEC with Ultrix and VMS). It is just Intel/AMD with Windows > or Linux. And universal solution for any issue is to add more and more > servers. > The only platform which is not in the niche is IBM System p, but even > here AS/400 line is declining, and AIX loses to Linux. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
