[Info-vax] OT: Technology blogger for Motley Fool

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/17/2011 5:53 PM, JF Mezei wrote:
> seasoned_geek wrote:
>> We can make OpenVMS relevant again.
>>
>> All it takes is for us to tell the world about all of the new
>> development, even if those factions at HP which keep getting the
>> company dragged before Congressional Inquiries keep telling the world
>> they've stopped development.
>
>
> Sorry to be the party pooper on this but...
>
>   The oly way to make VMS relevant would be to wait for some major system
> failure that make the news (stock exchange down etc) and then point to
> reporters that HP had a solution for this called VMS which allowed
> clustering over distant sites and that if VMS had been used, this
> systems failyre wouldn't have been noticed,

HP would not need to push VMS to provide such a solution.

Practically any technology could provide that functionality
(they would not use OS clustering to achieve it, but that
is not particular relevant).

Arne