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Clare Shepherd wrote: > I've just read an interesting article in the Make magazine daily > newsletter about the above. VMS is open now and owned by HP. As it's > a paid sub, I've posted the news item. I thought some here might find > it of passing interest. > > Gareth Williams, associate director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical > Observatory Minor Planet Center since 1990, has been tracking the > 400,000 orbits of known asteroids and comets in the solar system > using a cluster of 12 VAXes, from offices on the Harvard University > campus. The Deutsche Börse stock exchange in Frankfurt runs on VMS. > The Australian Stock Exchange runs on it. The train system in > Ireland, Irish Rail, runs on it, as does the Amsterdam police > department. The U.S. Postal Service runs its mail sorters on OpenVMS, > and Amazon.com uses it to ship 112,000 packages a day. It has "a very > loyal installed base of customers," says Ann McQuaid, general manager > of OpenVMS at HP, who shows no signs of wanting to give it up. > > If anyone is interested in more here's a link to the original article > in Information Week: http://www.informationweek.com/news/ > showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202801794 > > Clare > > I guess that's where the saying comes from... if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html