-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/07 01:51, Paul Lambert wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> Dinosaurist? >> >> The big systems we use were last upgraded 5ish years ago, and are >> scheduled (eventually) to be replaced with Oracle on Linux. >> > > We've got some pretty new Alpha servers (around a year old) running VMS > 8.3 which was released about the same time we got the servers...or > shortly before.
We're pushing to get a big GS320 and a 5TB SAN to consolidate a couple of the systems that ran out of capacity a couple of years ago. The h/w is owned by a government agency, though, so we're at their mercy regarding capital expenditures. > Sure it's been around nearly since the dawn of time, but it's still an > actively developed operating system. > > I've finally got my Alpha server at home up and running now too, and I What are you running? > hope to be getting PG running on it as part of my thesis project when I > start that in the near future, if my schedule allows. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGRZUGS9HxQb37XmcRAuEoAJ4nxf3fVFjnmdN77Tubk6JdMnN5pQCdF9jD skMKKeYbeO0vDRcE+vjAmC0= =EnbC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
