[Info-vax] Decomissioning VMS... a sad day!

[onedbguru]

On Jan 31, 5:22 pm, "Mr. Mike" <mistermikedi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Soon a very sad day will fall upon me. Within the next few months
> there will no longer be a VMS presence at our organization. I am the
> Manager of Infrastructure Systems at Christiana Care Health System in
> Delaware and we will turn off the power to these systems within the
> next few months.  We are moving our Cerner Application to a Remote
> Hosted UNIX solution.
> With that said, I have a collection of AlphaServers that need caring
> and loving homes.  These systems are currently operational and under a
> maintenance contract. They range in size from  DS10's to GS1280's,
> even a few HSG80's to round out the decade. For a qualfied Non-Profit
> Organization, we will certainly consider donation. For a Commercial
> Entity, let me just state that we are a Non-Profit Organization...
> Feel free to contact me directly for a complete listing of all
> hardware and software licenses that are available.
>
> Regards,
> Michael Dixon
> MiD... at ChristianaCare.Org

Michael,

The Cerner RHO is a really nice setup,  I had the privilege/misfortune
of working there for a year and a half -  KC,MO is really a good-ole-
boy state and if you weren't from there - well, you just didn't last
long - especially if you knew what you were doing.  I began the coding
for their perfornance monitoring stuff using T4 to be able to track
all sorts stuff for each cluster.  Was even working with the AIX team
to capture their stuff in T4 format and used the Apache webserver on
VMS to display it all.

When I left (2004) they had over 150 VMS boxes ranging from DS10/10L -
GS1280's and 250TB+ of storage but, I think they have more than
doubled the storage by now.  I do not know the status of the HSG80's
and the VMS boxes they did have, but I am sure I could find out if I
really wanted too..

Now I am back to being an Oracle DBA and RAC specialist on various
****X platforms.