[TriLUG] openvms help

[Kevin Flanagan]

Aaron,


    No need to fear OpenVMS, just because it's superior to all.  In all 
respects but one, user base.  I once was having a conversation with THE 
guy, Ken Olsen, a couple of years after his being forced out of DEC, 
where he lamented the lack of acceptance of VMS in the market.  He said 
that if they had brought VMS to the X86 platform it would be where 
Windows was. I guess that it could be where BSD is today, perhaps better 
if they had set it free.

    I remember a few years back when HP announced the eventual demise of 
OpenVMS, a business owner in South Africa was pretty upset, he hadn't 
rebooted his large VAX in 6 years, it ran the whole business.

    Usually stability has as much to do with how you manage a system as 
anything else.  The most effective things that I have done to production 
systems to achieve stability was to take away rights to change things 
from almost everyone.

Wishes don't make it so, and we have what we have. 




Kevin

Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Jason Tower wrote:
>   
>> i need someone with solid openvms experience for a semi-quick contract
>> job (preferably openvms on compaq alpha hardware).  if you'd like to
>> make some quick holiday cash ping me offline and i'll give you the details.
>>
>> jason
>>     
>
> OpenVMS, Tigers and Bears... Oh my!
>
> Keep your holidays straight Jason, it's the
> Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa/Holiday(*) time of year, not Halloween!  No
> need to scare people with talk of VMS.  :)
>
> Aaron S. Joyner
>
> http://www.venganza.org/2006/12/01/happy-holiday-season-everyone.htm
>