Re: Anyone know why the Alpha market is so so quiet?

Main, Kerry wrote:


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Phuleeease .. I will not say OpenVMS could not be marketed a tad better,
but lets not start putting Sun/Solaris on some type of platter here.

I work a great these days on large multi-platform, multi-vendor IT and
DC consolidation engagements and rightfully or wrongly, almost every
med-large DC Cust I run into with Solaris systems has the following
strategy:
- keep Solaris on SPARC for bigger Apps for now, but look at moving
these to Linux at some point in the future.
- move all other low-med Solaris apps to Linux.

So, they are certainly not without their big issues these days ..

Regards

Kerry Main

Why would anyone in their right mind want to run Linux for mission critical stuff when Solaris is now free, industrial strength, has decades of professional development effort and runs on Sparc or X86 ?. One would think the more obvious migration path would be away from Solaris on Sparc to Solaris on X86, needing only a recompile, rather than to a completely different os platform of dubious integrity. You've said it yourself - Linux suffers dozens of patches and security alerts a month for starters. You can't have it both ways.

Too many apologies, excuses, NIH, politics, obfustication and the dead hand of corporatism. Face it - HP didn't invent vms and wouldn't recognise a diamond if it bit them in the most relevant place. They deserve to be hammered by Sun, who at least seem to have a dynamic and a passion for what they are doing.

Chris
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