[Info-vax] ASX ClickXT and VMS Epic Fail

[Richard Maher]

"JF Mezei" <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote in message 
news:4d6c053c$0$12963$c3e8da3$9deca2c3 at news.astraweb.com...
> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
>> I believe this Ian:  http://preview.tinyurl.com/ASX-VMS
>>
>
> They mention the current system has been in place since last november,
> and that he previous ITS system had 100% uptime.
>
> I have to wonder if they converted from VMS to something else, or if
> they stuck with VMS in that conversion to a new system.

The joke (that appears to be on us/me) is that it was VMS but is now Linux 
:-(

How much has this one outage cost in real dollars and even more so in 
reputation/prestige? Why doesn't someone at OMX let alone the ASK get their 
arse well and truly kicked?

I thought that if the Singapore exchange take-over of ASX (won't happen 
anyway) went through then it might go back to VMS but I just read an article 
that says they wen to "GENIUM in 2009 :-(

So the VMS solution has 100% up-time but that's not important to these 
wankers that just lost billions in trades and failed closing positions?

Nah, Nasdaq/OMX is the joke but ASX and SGX don't seem to be laughing.

Why isn't this fodder for The Register or ComputerWeekly et al?

Cheers Richard Maher