Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> writes: On Jun 6, 2013, at 8:19 AM, "Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-" <system at TMESIS.C= OM> wrote: Michael Holmes <mholmes10 at hotmail.com> writes: =20 Damn! =20 I work in federal govt and we have numerous (3 digits) VMS hosts world-wi= de t=3D hat never gave us any trouble (especially compared to windoze).=3D20 =20 Really? According to HP's Lorraine Bartlett VP BCS Marketing & Strategy w= ho gave a keynote at the recent OpenVMS Bootcamp in mid-March, there were les= s than 200 VMS customers and none were in Gov't. I, and those in attendance= , knew better. That figure must represent the largest VMS Itanium customers= and HP only case about LARGE sales. I know of at least 100 sites with VMS= Itanium boxes in the US and I am sure there are more world-wide. Itanium,= not the first generation anyway, did not win the hearts of VMS afficionado= s happily running it on Alpha. IMO, it was not until recent blade comfigura= - tions that people started to move. Some are happy with their Alpha instal= - lations and were waiting for VMS in i4. So, HP created a self-fulfilling prophecy. =20 =20 That is BS. Of course, and that's what I said. I worked in DoD Military Health System and we had at least 101 h= ost sites which we had to upgrade the big sites to Itanium (C7000 & blades) a= s the alphas were end of life and we recycled some of the alphas as spares f= or the smaller sites until they could be moved over to the smaller C3000 bla= des setup.=20 When I left we were looking at potentially moving the application to run und= er windows server, but it couldn't do clustering like VMS could.=20 Who can? HP is missing a huge market in healthcare as the 3 major commercial electron= ic health record systems all are run under MUMPS which runs great on VMS.=20= Yup. Sadly HP never really listened to DoD security concerns and didn't upgrade V= MS to address the items (like native PKI support) we had to move away from V= MS since the vendor had no plans to fix.=20 Although PKI isn't particularly an OS issue. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.