To follow up on the previous reply, there are OpenVMS instances that have uptimes measured in decades. Not everyone needs this; in the past 20 years we've all l

To follow up on the previous reply, there are OpenVMS instances that have uptimes measured in decades. Not everyone needs this; in the past 20 years we've all learned how to distribute applications onto arrays of consumer PCs. But for some organizations and some applications, long uptimes are a BIG DEAL(tm). Also... VMS makes sense in a way that Unix never did.