| Title: | DEC Rdb against the World |
| Moderator: | HERON::GODFRIND |
| Created: | Fri Jun 12 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 23 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1348 |
| Total number of notes: | 5438 |
This may not be directly related to the original purpose of this conference, however, I post this question on several TP related conferences in hope for a quick and detailed reply. We are in a competitive situation for a large TP project for a "defense type" customer. The original request was for an "OPEN" system, which is basically interpreted by the customer as a Unix system. However, we have managed to raise doubts in the customer's mind about how mature the Unix/TP market is, and our main hope now is to convince them that DECtp products on VMS are mature enough as well as functionally good for their purposes (and, of-course, also on the way to "openness"...). Our main competitors right now seem to be IBM with ENSENA (sp?) and DG with TUXEDO (sp?). We have been asked the following: HOW MANY/WHICH *OLTP* DEFENSE SYSTEM TODAY ARE BASED ON VAX/VMS VS. HOW MANY/WHICH ARE BASED ON UNIX ??? Any help is appreciated. /Nitsan
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| 1155.1 | OLTP -vs- High Availability | NOVA::NOVA::R_ANDERSON | My timing is Digital. | Wed May 27 1992 17:23 | 13 |
You may be confusing "OLTP" with "High Availability". I imagine there
are a lot of OLTP applications running in the defense world on UNIX
(a lot of my past employers' products are running in the military world
:-). However, this does not mean that the applications have "high
availability" (an oxymoron in the Unix world).
VAX/VMS OLTP systems have "high availability" (along with higher cost,
I imagine). I would guess that there are a limited number of these
types of "mission critical" applications in the military world, but
less so than in the commercial/industrial worlds.
IMHO.
Rick
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| 1155.2 | What are the real requirements | TRCOA::MCMULLEN | Ken McMullen | Wed May 27 1992 22:18 | 12 |
Since ENCINA is not a shipping product, we know there are 0 "defense
systems" running today.
What is important to your customer - standards, inter-operability,
portability or are you talking to a "UNIX only biggot"? Have you talked
to your customer about NTT/MIA?
ACMS will be available on OSF in the near future, but if availability
and a proven stable platform is what your customer requires, then ACMS
on VMS is the solution.
Ken
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