[Info-vax] ASX ClickXT and VMS Epic Fail

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In article <5b90eab3-1dd3-4165-a8fa-fa30e25a4942 at v11g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, IanMiller <gxys at uk2.net> writes:
>On Feb 28, 3:19=A0pm, 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=3DA0am, "Richard Maher" <maher... at hotspamnotmail.com>
>> >wrote:
>> >> Can someone confirm/deny that VMS was at the very root of the debacle =
>at =3D
>> >the
>> >> ASX this afternoon?
>>
>> >> Regards Richard Maher
>>
>> >You will have to give some details about what you are taking about.
>>
>> I believe this Ian: =A0http://preview.tinyurl.com/ASX-VMS
>>
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>> All your spirit rack abuses, come to haunt you back by day.
>> All your Byzantine excuses, given time, given you away.
>
>
>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.

Follow some of the other links.  Those say that system was replaced last
November!
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All your spirit rack abuses, come to haunt you back by day.
All your Byzantine excuses, given time, given you away.