Re: [MLUG] advice on hiring consultants?

[Chris Wolfe <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Couldn't help but respond to the baiting :D... VMS is not dying any time 
soon, as they're porting it to the Itanium platform (the Alpha line of 
processors will be phased out).  HP's committed to it, but you know how 
things change in the IT world.  Maybe the servers could use a memory or 
CPU upgrade.  Your admins should be able to get system stats and have HP 
support help them with tuning, they could even do that in the meantime. 
  Hopefully whomever you get as consultants will at least suggest it.

Got to say that I was a happy camper when we moved file sharing and 
email off our VMS servers.  Let them do the heavy lifting.

--Chris

Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> 1) How to junk VMS without disrupting the world. 
> 2) How to keep the Win users supported and out of everybody's hair. 
> 3) How to avoid paying a lot of money to get the situation 
>    straightened out.
> 
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>> We have some aging VMS machines doing our e-mail service, storing
>> large data sets and doing statistical analysis in SAS (slowly!),
>> but they are having some trouble handling the load and we are
>> having frequent e-mail jams because of the slowness of virus
>> scanning.  The VMS machines also do file serving and printer
>> serving for the desktop machines.
> 
> OK, and I think this is your first problem.  VMS as a platform is 
> basically toast, and I suspect that whoever decided to set things up 
> this way is/was a long-time VMS-head, possibly seeking employment 
> insurance.

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