[Info-vax] OpenVMS.org down

[Paul Sture]

In article <4e3b54f8$0$23935$e4fe514c at news2.news.xs4all.nl>,
 MG <marcogbNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:

> On 5-8-2011 3:05, Bill Pedersen wrote:
> > "Thursday, August 4, 2011, 7:30pm
> >
> > Database server crashed. Looks like power supply. New one coming overnight,
> > should arrive Friday morning.
> >
> > Ken"
> 
> Thank you for relaying this here.
> 
> I wonder what kind of system it was.  Maybe it'd be an idea, this time,
> to install dual (redundant) power supplies?  That is, if the system has
> the (cap)ability, of course.  Maybe switching to Rdb, to satisfy the
> VMS bigots out there, would be nice, too.  (But not at the utmost
> importance though.)
> 
> I'm a big fan of the site, so I'll be happy enough to just see it back
> up, on-line and running.
> 

I my memory serves correctly the site started out running Tru64 on an 
Alpha.  Unfortunately switching to Rdb licenses aren't cheap.

Sidenote on MySQL: Apple have dropped MySQL from the server version of 
their latest release of OS X in favour of PostgreSQL.  I think the 
decision was probably to do with licensing and Oracle getting MySQL 
along with the rest of Sun.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/02/apple_dumps_mysql_from_mac_os_x_s
erver/

Despite what the article says, I've never had any trouble installing 
MySQL on OS X Clients, so this should not be a show stopper for someone 
already using MySQL on OS X Server.

-- 
Paul Sture