10 year uptime of VMS cluster for Amsterdam Police

[John Travell]

Not a single second during all of ten years when your application was unavailable for use, even through relocation to a different town ?
That deserves more than just credit due to effective management, it truly warrants global publicity, most especially to those who make the strategic decisions in public and commercial organisations.
Has any other platform ever come even close to achieving this ? I suspect probably not.
OpenVMS for ever... :-)

John Travell,
Independent VMS support,
Hampshire, UK.

[Volker Halle]

Jan,

congratulations for this fantastic uptime of your OpenVMS cluster.

OpenVMS - when downtime in not an option.

Volker Halle
Invenate GmbH
Hannover, Germany

[VK2COT]

Hello,

Sincere congratulations!

This is what computing business should
be about.

Good solutions should never be be based
on reboots :)

My first four years in IT were devoted to VMS from 1986 to 1990 (PDP-11, MicroVaxen, Vax 750, 780 and similar).

Digital Equipment Corporation provided excellent support at the time.

Whilst I love Unix and Linux (dealing with thme for the last 22 years), I still have
very fond memories of VMS.

You are in Amsterdam, so good beer should
not be a problem to find :) Enjoy the
celebration.

VK2COT (Sydney - Australia)

[Sunny Jaisinghani]

Hello

Hearty Congratualations.

Though i am a fresher in HP-UX and not well versed with the clustering environment i can understand what a great achievement this is.

Keep up the good work.

Sunny Jaisinghani
India, Mumbai

[Martin Hughes]

Congratulations to the architects and administrators responsible for this achievement. It must be especially satisfying to be able to serve the VMS community by generating such good publicity for OpenVMS.

Congratulations also to the Amsterdam Police for making such a sound investment.

Martin Hughes
VMS Systems Administrator
Sydney Australia

[Matti_Kurkela]

Congratulations for everyone responsible for the design, building, administration and maintenance of your cluster!

To get a system that can work continuously for years, you need a system that is prepared to handle all kinds of failures. It is not something you can really add into the system by just installing some magic product: it must be taken into account at every level, from the fundamentals of server room environment to the internals of the application software and administration procedures.

Your people have obviously understood that and made it a reality. The results speak for themselves.

Matti Kurkela
HP-UX/Linux sysadmin
Finland

[Jan van den Ende]

What other score than 10 points could be possible for 10 years?

Going into the celebration now.

Your congrats form part of the presentation.

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[H_Bachner]

Congratulations to the team that kept the cluster up and running continuously for 10 years; congratulations to the Amsterdam Police which selected the very best technology to achieve this, and just received another confirmation that their choice was absolutely right; and of course congratulations also to the OpenVMS engineers for this excellent showcase of what this OS is capable of.

This entry comes after the cutoff date Jan set in his original posting, but I didn't want to give Murphy a chance :-)

Happy celebrations,
Hans.

[Wouter Jagers]

Same here.. I wouldn't want my message to jinx the ten-year-thing ;-)

Congratulations to all people involved on this outstanding achievement !

The knowledge that this application has been up continuously since I started my career in IT adds a surrealistic touch.

Big raise for everyone ! Keep up the great work.

Cheers,

Wouter Jagers
Uptime Technologies

[Vladimir Fabecic]

Congratulations to the team that kept the cluster up and running continuously for 10 years!!!
I wanted to post my congrats after the cutoff date, so I am doing it now.
Also hope someone from HP management saw this great achievement !

VMS is the best!!!!!!!