[Info-vax] Comment on the future of OpenVMS

[seasoned_geek]

On Oct 26, 4:57 am, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> You may be correct. I have been accused of viewing the world through
> the prism of optimism. That said, Oracle's track record as a company
> is better than most. If I could travel 10-years back in time to tell
> myself that "Oracle bought Sun" I would have been skeptical. While it
> is unlikely that Oracle could ever buy HP, I think Oracle would buy
> the OpenVMS division of HP "if HP lost interest in OpenVMS". But this
> is all conjecture.

Well founded conjecture though.  Oracle is in the process of putting
RedHat out of business.  RedHat purchased the gentleman who headed up
the True/64 clustering initiative in a vain attempt to get clustering
into Linux.  Oracle purchased clustering technology from HP because
Oracle RAC is still not fault tolerant.

Neither attempt to add clustering to Linux or any flavor of Unix will
be successful.  Both platforms have fundamental flaws which make it
physically impossible to add business class reliable clustering.

I give it less than eight years actually.  At the end of that time
span there should be enough high profile catastrophes (bigger than the
last one I heard about at Caterpillar) which send Oracle over to HP to
purchase VMS, add some Unix window dressing (but not actual Unix just
some commands and displays to make it "feel" kind of like Unix to the
die hards) to it, and re-brand it as Oracle Enterprise Unix or simply
Oracle Enterprise OS.  If they had even the tiniest shred of technical
savy they would port it to an AMD CPU while they were at it.