[Info-vax] "HP started then spiked HP-UX on x86 project"

[MG]

On 29-5-2012 18:30, Keith Parris wrote:
> On 5/27/2012 4:16 PM, Bill Pechter wrote:
>> In article<jpqr66$8hi$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> David Froble<davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> DEC's biggest mistake was giving RDB to Oracle ....
>>
>> And clustering to Microsoft.
>
> Oracle licensed the TruCluster technology, which it put into Oracle RAC.
> None of that technology seems to have made it into Oracle Linux or now
> Solaris.
>
> Microsoft bought a non-exclusive license to the VMScluster patents. DEC
> wrote a distributed lock manager and clusterwide file system for
> Windows, and Microsoft bought that technology along with the team of
> developers. But we've seen no sign of that technology in MSCS either.
>
> Casting pearls before swine...

Thanks for clearing that up and that makes a lot of sense!

  - MG