[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <shr7f4$tnu$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
<arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> >> 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.
> 
> But why should they need to hire more people??
> 
> Let us take Rdb vs Oracle DB aka Classic with RAC (real RAC
> not RAC One). Both use a DLM but Rdb use VMS DLM while Oracle DB
> RAC use its own DLM.
> 
> Does it matter for developers or operations? Not really.

Have you ever worked anywhere where one tried to emulate the 
functionality of VMS with regard to clustering, availability, and so on 
with non-VMS hardware and software?