[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <0037fd01$0$19608$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>> 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'm under the impression that IBM already contributed a DLM based
>    clustering capability to Linux.
>  

And Solaris has some sort of clustering available.  I never worked with 
it and don't know the details.