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nsc rha non stop clusters reliant high

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From: "John B" <j.boocock@NOSPAMvirgin.net>
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Subject: Re: What do you think of the show so far?
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 00:39:25 +0100

Nope, it seems the way forward is good old Reliant HA, NSC will continue to
be availible for some time though although, being an NSC user myself, we are
being urged off it and todays meetining confirmed that NSC is not the way
forward, so much so that NSC licences can be swapped for RHA ones.

Compaq are cutting costs (allegedly) and regardless of if you were ever
informed of it or not, NSC was a Compaq product sold under the UnicWare
banner, so hence that this now takes a back seat for Compaq and SCO/Caldera,
so the oficial stance seems to be with RHA and Volution rather than the
single system image.

The guy that I had come in was ex-SCO, now Caldera so make of that what you
will! Also this was backed up by one of our hardware suppliers who are close
to Compaq who suggest that 'someone' is possibly looking at a trade in deal
for some of the proprietry hardware that is unique / used by NSC in a lot of
cases.

Bit of a pisser really as I was just looking forward to another pair of NSC
machines and now I'm left looking at options again rather than going with
the NSC option that I have to admit I have been very impressed with.

I'll let you know if I get anything else exciting!

JB

> Well it looks like that was just a temporary website merging problem,
> http://www.sco.com/products/clustering/ has appeared.  (Just the
> same text as was on the SCO site, but better than nothing).
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> > Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net> wrote in message
> > news:116a9716.0105311631.116a4b99@posting.google.com...
> > >
> > > It is being phased out.
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> Where did you get this idea?  I was under the impression that it was
> the "Jewel in the Crown" (Though god knows how the licensing issues
> are going to be worked out).
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> > Yeah, I have SCO coming into the office on Tusday to 'discuss' what they
> are
> > moving forward with clustering....
>
> You had who coming into the office?  SCO?  Not Caldera?
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