[jiggyboy]

Sounds like VMS will go the way of HP's Tandem fault-tolerant computers have gone in the past two or three years: from a fully-supported product line into oblivion.

[SirLinksalot]

Sounds like VMS will go the way of HP's Tandem fault-tolerant computers have gone in the past two or three years: from a fully-supported product line into oblivion.

2 questions :

1) Is there no one in the USA using the Tandem fault tolerant system today ? I know that the NASDAQ Stock Market had their Supermontage trading system based on the Tandem but after they acquired Instinet, they totally shelved the Tandem platform and adopted Instinet's UNIX based trading system.

2) Do you still think that OpenVMS has a future ? I do know that a lot of defense companies as well as stock markets in Europe still use them.

Do you see a trend towards migrating away from OpenVMS ?

It's a pity because I've used OpenVMS and UNIX, and I'll tell you honestly, OpenVMS is the more elegant, robust, reliable, secure OS.

[Nagual]

Tandems are alive and well. HP now calls them INTEGRITY servers.

After all The Tandem was Fault Tolerant!!!!