[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

JF Mezei wrote:
> Bob Koehler wrote:
>>    What in the world can Solaris do that Linux just can't do?
> 
> If Oracle takes the VMS clustering technology and moves it from the
> database engine to the Solaris OS, then Solaris will have gained
> features that Linux can't match.
> 
> I think it might end up one of the world's biggest ironies:
> 
> Solaris, once the arch rival of VMS would end up getting the unique VMS
> clustering technologies, while the owners of VMS would have ditched that
> technology in favour of inferior product from Veritas.
> 
> Back in the late 1980s, announcing that Solaris would one day inherit
> VMS clustering would have been April Fools material.

I still think it is.

VMS clustering does not sell many computers today.

Arne