[Info-vax] ASX ClickXT and VMS Epic Fail

[IanMiller]

On Feb 28, 3:19 pm, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <6fb94d6f-c98a-4001-b456-61f322dbf... at y36g2000pra.googlegroups.com>, IanMiller <g... at uk2.net> writes:
>
> >On Feb 28, 11:32=A0am, "Richard Maher" <maher... at hotspamnotmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >> Can someone confirm/deny that VMS was at the very root of the debacle at =
> >the
> >> ASX this afternoon?
>
> >> Regards Richard Maher
>
> >You will have to give some details about what you are taking about.
>
> I believe this Ian:  http://preview.tinyurl.com/ASX-VMS
>
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I see. The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) stopped trading
earlier than normal on the 28th Feb due to "technical difficulties".
The system was supplied by Nasdaq-OMX and according to this old
brochure http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/brochures/asx/ runs on
OpenVMS Alpha. So was the root cause of the outage due to OpenVMS - I
expect it's a bit early to tell.