[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Jan 18, 1:17 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> http://logikalblog.com/2009/01/17/hp-ux-and-ms-windowsfail/
>
> It isn’t really a surprise to anyone who knows anything about
> technology. It is only a shock to those missguided souls who listen to
> that marketing firm known as The Gartner Group. Recently the Shanghai
> Stock Exchange announce it will be replacing its current HP UX trading
> engine with a next generation platform developed completely on
> OpenVMS.
>
> NSR

Interestingly the item also says "A brand new twin roll steel mill
being built just outside of Hong Kong is going on-line inside of 18
months. OpenVMS will run it."

And Windows would ruin it, sooner or later. Seriously. I used to work
with a company that made control systems for steel mills, and with end
users in steel and paper rolling plants, with VMS in the roller
control loop, and response times in the low tens of milliseconds. Try
doing that with Windows (I have, albeit not with rolling mills, and it
doesn't happen). In a rolling mill, be it steel, paper, whatever,
mistakes, hiccups, or even downtime of any kind can be very expensive,
in terms of equipment damage and/or lives lost.