[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <rCX4PAFlLKhp at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> 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.
  
Yeah, I got tired of pointing that out everytime someone here
said nobody but VMS has a DLM.

bill

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