My research group in 2004-ish bought a couple of DEC Tru64 Unix boxes on the basis of their fast CPUs and the high availability features. We discovered fairly q

My research group in 2004-ish bought a couple of DEC Tru64 Unix boxes on the basis of their fast CPUs and the high availability features. We discovered fairly quickly that the OS was pretty awful compared to the Linux we had on all our other machines, and in particular the JVM was seriously crippled (which was unfortunate given most of the stuff we were developing was in Java).