[Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan

[Neil Rieck]

On Jan 11, 7:47 am, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <hiev8l$oq9$0... at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> writes:
> >Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:
>
> >> I was doing Unix, Windows and VMS at my last job.  The Unix was running
> >> on X86 hardware and supporting a typesetting application.  The Windows
> >> part was removing virii and worms and patching Windows to close some of
> >> the "holes" being exploited by said virii and worms.  The VMS support
> >> occupied very little of my time.
>
> >In my experience the amount of necessary daily support is
> >roughly proportional to the number of users,
> >especially on the desktop.
>
> In my experience, it's been:
>
> Support person = ceil (1/(number of users on system))
>
> On VMS and unix, number of users on system is typically >1.  Regardless,
> 1 support person for VMS and unix.  However, with WEENDOZE, it's 1 user
> per box...
>
> Support person = ceil (1/(1 WEENDOZE user)) * WEENDOZE boxes.
>
> Judging by the size of some of the IT support groups I have encountered,
> the math may be a bit off with an additional fudge factor...
>
> Support person = ceil (1/(1 WEENDOZE user)) * (WEENDOZE boxes + fudge)
>
> Fudge is usually for the support of the WEENDOZE server to which these
> single user WEENDOZE boxes connect.
>
> It's like buying a car with a full time mechanic.
>
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I hear ya but have seen different results. 18 months ago some idiot
replaced a dual-host uVAX-4300 cluster with an equivalent system based
upon two DL380 boxes running Windows 2003 Server. They're still
running VMS-5.5-2 with Charon VAX emulator. It took them a couple
months to stop it from crashing but since then it now runs better than
the uVAX platform (at least so far). Nobody touches the platform (it
is a lights out operation run from Montreal) but it apparently hosts
over a hundred simultaneous users.

The only reason why I bring this up is that the DL380 (Xeon based)
looks identical to the Itanium boxes I see on eBay. So i guess the
handwriting is on the wall (so to speak).

NSR