Re: HP *ALMOST* Advertised VMS

From: Paul Sture (p_sture_at_elias.decus.ch)
Date: 09/06/03 

Date: 6 Sep 03 11:06:18 +0200

In article <1D96b.169555$_V.67196@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>, "John Smith" <a@nonymous.com> writes:
>

<snip>

>
> A simple ad would suffice in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business
> Week etc.....
>
> Show a map of the USA and Canada, and/or Europe, to scale. Label major
> cities.

Something like this?

http://www.energyprobe.org/energyprobe/index.cfm?DSP=content&ContentID=8173

And to put the area sizes in Europe into perspective, from
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Switzerland: Area - comparative: "slightly less than twice the size of New
Jersey"
(41,290 sq km, pop: 7.3 million)

Germany: Area - comparative: "slightly smaller than Montana"
(357,021 sq km,pop: 82.4 million)

France: Area - comparative: "slightly less than twice the size of Colorado"
(547,030 sq km, pop: 60.2 million)

United Kingdom: Area - comparative: "slightly smaller than Oregon"
(244,820 sq km, pop: 60 million)

> Show the blackout area as a shaded area.
> Have a triangle with sides to scale of 500 miles.
>
> The instructions read:
>
> 1) Cut out the triangle and overlay on the map.
> 2) Locate your primary data center at one apex.
> 3) Locate your backup and quorum sites at the other corners.
> 4) Compare what other vendors can do.
> 5) Install HP Alphaservers running OpenVMS at each location.
> 6) Stay in business.
>
> OpenVMS clusters fit almost every budget, from two small machines with
> one processor each through to clusters of thousands of processors with
> dynamic partitioning capabilities.
>
> No matter which business you are in, disaster-tolerant OpenVMS
> clusters ensure that the lights don't permanently go out on your
> company.
>
> We wrote the book on clusters. Everyone else is just learning how to
> read.
>
> (c) 2003, John Smith. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
>
>
> HP - contact me off-line for the BIC code for my Caymans account.
>

Nice one John :-)

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