[Info-vax] IS everyone waiting?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <num8ep$sms$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> > Have you ever tried to manage a large Windows or UNIX cluster?
> 
> Of what relevance is that to fixing the disaster that is OpenVMS 
> clustering?   

Yes, one can fix the problems in VMS even if other platforms have 
problems.

> I deal with some platforms that have LDAP and Kerberos implementations 
> that are far easier than OpenVMS --- installation of the servers, and 
> creating and populating a directory is vastly easier than what's 
> typical on OpenVMS.   

A cluster with nodes spread among data centres tens of kilometres apart.
A live database open and written to on all nodes.  Lose a node and while
the application might have to reconnect to the cluster, the back-end
processing continues.  No failover, no standby of any temperature, no
switching, nothing the user has to know about.  This has been standard
with Rdb and VMS for decades.  Out of the box.  No extra installation.
No extra work.  No extra licenses.  No special hardware.  Does any other
platform even get close?