And the plans for this, I was informed from a manager at HP last week, are:
- It's beta on VMS on Itanium now
- It can run in a cluster with an Alpha box
- Possible release in 3rd quarter of 2004
Mogens
Tanel Poder wrote:
Maybe you all already know that, but HP is planning to support OpenVMS on
Oh yeah? Just this week we had a Windows box that had been up for 29
days straight!!!
Yep. You read it right. I'm not giving out our secrets though.
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This is a small, static, but
Let me guess your secret: Windows box is running X-windows X11R6 and an OS
ending in x? Your version of windows has a bug in BSOD?
On 12/11/2003 01:59:37 PM, Cunningham, Gerald wrote:
Oh yeah? Just this week we had a Windows box that had been up for 29
days straight!!!
Yep. You read it
I'm guessing that you removed the monitor, keyboard and mouse, disabled terminal services, removed it from the domain, unbound NetBIOS from TCP/IP and shut down all of the non-required services (especially "Server")- and - put a penguin sticker on the front of it, so that people thought it was a
Now you've got me going, Rich.
After 15 years of VMS we're being forced to use UNIX (HP-UX 11i) just
because
the application we want to use doesn't run on VMS.
(Developers needed to re-write the app for VMS. Marketing needed so the
developers will be paid
and the company will be profitable.)
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
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
