[Info-vax] I guess VMS can't lose?

jm joyantomitra at gmail.com
Mon Nov 1 11:53:31 EDT 2010


On Nov 1, 8:37 pm, jm <joyantomi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Passenger reservation of Indian Railways runs on OVMS.  An n-tier,
> distributed database environment.  This is not simple reservation
> system.  It implements very complex policies framed by the Railway
> Boards.  Sybase & Oracle tried earlier to migrate but failed.  Because
> few things is extremely difficult to implement.  Performance is no way
> near to the VMS and its layered products, especially the middleware,
> Reliable Transaction Router (RTR).  Still uncrackable/unhackable
> system.
>
> Amsterdam Police Deptt. few years ago completed 10 years of uptime.
> VMS is awarded world record of uptime of 19 years of uptime.
>
> 800 kms nodes of a cluster can be placed without compromise on
> performance.  Best for disaster recovery.
>
> The World Trade Center had strong-room where VMS servers were running,
> and still running after that 9/11 disaster.  In intense heat, though
> network was disconnected, air-conditioning
> failed........................

Sorry Typo!!!  read as---

An n-Tier Client and Server model.



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