[Info-vax] One wonders why people bet their companies on Microsoft based products...

[BillPedersen]

On Oct 12, 8:15 pm, Michael Kraemer <M.Krae... at gsi.de> wrote:
> BillPedersen schrieb:
>
> ... such as VMS emulators on M$-platforms?
>

VAX and Alpha hardware emulators running OpenVMS have a place in the
spectrum of implementations of OpenVMS.  They should never be
considered necessarily as the true replacement of a fully integrated
solution.  But they offer a mechanism of implement OpenVMS and keeping
the basic "hardware" the same when the actual physical hardware can no
longer be supported or maintained.

> We'll see PDAs running VMS real soon now?

The loss of data on the T-Mobile Sidekick network is due to a "massive
server failure".  Servers run by Microsoft/Danger. I do believe that a
server environment running OpenVMS is much less likely to have a
"massive server failure" than one based on MS products.  It also
sounds as if there was no "backup" environment here so obviously there
was no planning for a "disaster" which is exactly what they have.

I do not see OpenVMS running PDAs although it has run on one, running
an hardware emulator of course.