[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 9/14/21 5:04 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.
> 

Be careful what you say.  When the University went from an IBM
Mainframe to VAX/VMS for all the administrative stuff the number
of needed IT people more than doubled.

But, to be honest, when they made the next move from VMS to
pre-packaged Windows applications the number  more than
doubled again.  :-)

bill