[Info-vax] Anyone interested in another public access system

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00220d0f$0$15048$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> yyyc186 wrote:
>>  Let's look back to 9/11.  All
>> of those companies running HP/UX, Windows, Linux and various Unix
>> flavors in the Twin Towers. 
> 
> 
> Application availability trumps clustering capability. When the
> application you need is discontinued from VMS, you have no choice but to
>  move to another platform, even if its disaster recovery capabilities
> are inferior but still acceptable.

And, as I have said in the past, all of this assumes someone actually
wants these features.  Likeit or not, the majority of systems owners
don't.  I have personally looked into things like long-distance disk
mirroring and it is really trivial to add to Unix.  Most of the needed
code is already there.  But, guess what, I have yet to find anyone who
actually sees enough value in it to ask for it.  There may actually be
people doing it but because the interest is so low it doesn't even make
it onto the radar.  VMS has a lot of really nice features.  Unfortunately,
some of them come with real and costly overhead and the number of people
who are willing to accept that overhead is just too small.  People who
don't need the feature are unwilling to accept the overhead.  

bill

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