10 year uptime of VMS cluster for Amsterdam Police

[Bojan Nemec]

Jan,

Congratulation to you and yours VMS team!
Great job!

As I wrote last year, I use your site as an example when explaining VMS robustnes and service continuity.

Na zdravje!

Bojan Nemec
Alba d.o.o. ,
Nova Gorica, Slovenia

[Arch_Muthiah]

Jan,

My first congratulations! to Amsterdam Police for choosing the great "Fully shared everything" DEC's OpenVMS Cluster Technology.

Congratulations to the DEC's OpenVMS engineers team, Compaq and HP Team who keep investing/researching the OpenVMS cluster with VAX, Alpha, HP Integrity server to support different kind of Enterprise applications and Storage Technolgy to continously keep it one of the industry bellwether technology last 20 years.

I was working in Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) as a VMS system Crash Analyst in the division of Satellite tracking, controlling of IRS-1A, IRS-1B, IRS-1C, IRS-1P, and INSAT series satellites; Our Team had faced many problems to keep our Cluster up and running for years.

But....You and your team who involve in design the great application; setup, configure, administer your Cluster system and application for 10 years is incredible.

I will appreciate Amsterdam Polic department, YOU, your super team & Operators for their tremendous work in days, nights, weekends, and holiday for TEN years.

Congratulations! for all of you.

Archunan Muthiah
Alpha/OpenVMS/Tru64/AS400 Admin & Security Team Lead
Saltlake City,
UTAH.
Originally from Tamil Nadu, India.

[Peter Quodling]

Way to go.

I am currently beating my head against local State Police IT who are looking at PC-based systems, blech.

I recall, at a US DECUS a few years back there was discussion of a single VAX 750 running VMS 3 which had had over 14 years continuous uptime at that point.

BUt then, I just got a query from a head-hunter - there is a company here in town that is still running a PDP11/44 with RSX-11M with mission critical apps, and are wondering how to "move forward"...

Peter Q (Brisbane Australia)

[Jan van den Ende]

Hi,

photos are now available at

http://gerritwoertman.eu/AmsPol-10yr/0713April/

photo 1: Sue & me
photo 2: L->R Ton van Doorn (my boss); Frank Wagenaar; Anton van Ruitenbeek; John Haenen (former RPAA VMS manager, now head of the computer centre)
photo 3: Sue, Anton, Ton, me again; Gerrit Woertman (Dutch VMS Ambassador); Jan van Hal (former head of computer centre), Frank again.
photo 4: Ruben Wagenaar & and already named.
photo 5: probably interesting discussing
photo 6: Erdinc Kaya (current VMS) & known
photo 7: more discussion
photo 8: Sue serving champagne, with me pouring more in the foreground
photo 9: watching the
photo 10: Countdown \ these are actual shots
photo 11: PROOST!!! / from the cluster !
photo 12, 13, 14 looking at the historical pictures. The one not yet mentioned is Rob van der Kluft, head of computer centre when the cluster started
photo 15: memories
photo 16: Much younger me, Anton, Frank
photo 17: More viewing
photo 18: ANyone a refill?
photo 19: Sue in story-telling mode (VMS stories, of course!)

[Jan van den Ende]

Hi,

photos are now available at

http://gerritwoertman.eu/AmsPol-10yr/0713April/

photo 1: Sue & me
photo 2: L->R Ton van Doorn (my boss); Frank Wagenaar; Anton van Ruitenbeek; John Haenen (former RPAA VMS manager, now head of the computer centre)
photo 3: Sue, Anton, Ton, me again; Gerrit Woertman (Dutch VMS Ambassador); Jan van Hal (former head of computer centre), Frank again.
photo 4: Ruben Wagenaar & and already named.
photo 5: probably interesting discussing
photo 6: Erdinc Kaya (current VMS) & known
photo 7: more discussion
photo 8: Sue serving champagne, with me pouring more in the foreground
photo 9: watching the
photo 10: Countdown \ these are actual shots
photo 11: PROOST!!! / from the cluster !
photo 12, 13, 14 looking at the historical pictures. The one not yet mentioned is Rob van der Kluft, head of computer centre when the cluster started
photo 15: memories
photo 16: Much younger me, Anton, Frank
photo 17: More viewing
photo 18: ANyone a refill?
photo 19, 20: Sue in story-telling mode (VMS stories, of course!)
photo 21, 22: what is that Bootcamp exactly? Why should my people go? (21 Left, an "intruder": Rimon, senior Microsoft system manager)
23: (half hidden behind Frank) Dave Schipper, another of the "founding" system manager
Regrettably, the last of the original team, Jan de Wit, was abroad this day.

Photos by my wife, Betty Cambier.

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Jan van den Ende]

More pictures:

http://gerritwoertman.eu/AmsPol-10yr/AmsterdamPolice/

(I will not introduce people again and again)

3337: second person: Ton Schavemaker, current team
3340: That's my wife, Betty.
3345: that is a good one of Dave.
3346: freshly baked, still warm. "gevulde koek"
3347: in the chair: Henk van den Kommer, current VMS team
3360: the guy in the picture on the screen is (a much younger)Prince O'Brien, also at one time managing the cluster
3374 in the middle: Edwin Pouw, one of the team that are consolidating the systems of 4 police regions into one supra-regional IT structure.

Photos by Gerrit Woertman.

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe