[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[R.A.Omond]

ChrisQ wrote:
> R.A.Omond wrote:
>> ChrisQ wrote:
>>> [...snip...]
>>> It's not all bad news though - I understand that vms has recently had 
>>> a big win recently for the uk national health service. That could be 
>>> a lot of business :-)...
>>
>> Link ?
>>
>> or are you referring to the National Blood Transfusion bank stuff
>> that Colin Butcher (Xdelta) was involved in ?
> 
> It may have been. I forget where I saw the report, but noticed it 
> specifically because it mentioned vms. It may have been one of the hp 
> sites.
> 
> Vms should be ideal for this sort of work. Robust, very secure and with 
> decades of rigorous development behind it. It's a shame its not more 
> visible elsewhere...

I expect it was Colin's stuff that you saw.

However, just a little comment:  there is still a lot of VMS
prevalent within the NHS (I deal with many such sites). Many
of them are quite elegantly setup e.g. in 3-site split clusters.
Even though I've heard the old, old story that they will be
replaced within the next 6 months, I've heard the exact same
story for the last 10 years ...