[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Paul Sture]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:49:51 -0400, JF Mezei wrote:

> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> RMS was a great idea well into the 1980s.   And it's a marvelously
>> well-engineered system.  But it's really gotten quite feature-stale in
>> the ensuing decades.
> 
> Doesn't that apply to VMS in general ?  When they updated ODS to have
> ODS5, they added support for "text" file names, but the DCL interfaces
> were terrible.

Truly awful.

> 
> And if it had hit a technoogical roadblock, could VMS have added support
> for a new file system which could have co-existed with the old one to
> allow customer to transition ?

They did try a new file system.

"The Death of Spiralog"

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/System-Management/Why-was-Spiralog-retired/
td-p/4951205

"Hein van den Heuvel  01-10-2006 03:46 AM 

Mostly it was a day late and a dollar (sic)short. Besides the technical 
challenge, there was the challenge of a remote engineering group (Dollar 
(the town), Scotland

Timing/Politics (internal to VMS, and the future of VMS as seen at the 
time)/Engineering resources and such all played a role."


Note that Snapshot Services for OpenVMS also gets a mention in a follow up
post.


-- 
Paul Sture