[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <shq41f$1ca5$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
<arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> >>> There are certainly many big VMS customers who run clusters partly for
> >>> increased computing power.  Of course, disaster tolerance, rolling
> >>> upgrades, and so on are also reasons.
> >>
> >> 30 years ago: certainly.
> >>
> >> Today: not so sure.
> >>
> >> A single Itanium got lots of power.
> > 
> > Sure, but what are big VMS customers doing today?
> 
> Most likely running the same applications they did 30 years ago.

Are you sure?  Some are running SIMILAR applications, which however have
grown so that orders of magnitude more power is required.

> >> Disaster tolerance can be achieved in different ways.
> > 
> > But none as good as a VMS cluster.
> 
> Businesses are interested in application availability. They
> do not care whether that is provided by OS features or
> application features.

They should care if they have to hire twice as many people to implement 
the non-VMS solution.