[Info-vax] IT shops call on HP and Oracle to kiss and make up

[Paul Sture]

In article 
<a9141841-990c-4dfe-926b-3adf1b2e734b at g29g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
 abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I would suspect that if any IBM OS were to be "ported" to another
> hardware platform, similar issues would arise.  Any mainframe OS is
> usually tied somewhat to the hardware architecture upon which it was
> initially installed.  It would not make any sense otherwise.

I am not so sure about that.  IBM were doing mainframe OS virtualization 
decades ago.

> OpenVMS should be praised for the ability to remain consistant in its
> behavior spaning hardware platforms rather than be criticised for not
> being on yet another.

When Alphas first started shipping I was keen to find a vacancy which 
would give me experience of them, but the only vacancies on offer were 
insisting on only talking to folks who already had Alpha experience, as 
if it was some dark and mysterious skill to have.

I was therefore very impressed when I finally got my hands on an Alpha 
system (at V6.1) to see how much like the VAX version it was, at least 
from a system management point of view.

-- 
Paul Sture