Stratus will be celebrating its 30th birthday next month!  It is hard for me to believe that we have been at the business of producing continuously available computer systems for 30 years, even though I’ve been here this entire time.  How time flies! To commemorate this event, we are searching for the Stratus customer who [...]

I recently fielded a question from a VOS customer who wanted to know how to get his shared virtual memory regions to align between his legacy non-POSIX programs and his new, POSIX-based programs. This customer had used the create_data_object command to create several different shared virtual memory regions.  He had then used a bind control file [...]

I’ve been fielding questions from VOS customers who are considering upgrading to OpenVOS Release 17.0 and they are all asking the same question – what’s new, and why should I upgrade?  My strong recommendation is that VOS customers upgrade to OpenVOS Release 17.0.2 at their next maintenance opportunity. This is the latest maintenance release. My [...]

Customers often ask me how to get Stratus to add a feature to an existing product, or how to get Stratus interested in offering an additional product or service. Sometimes they just want to know how we gauge the level of interest in a new idea as we decide whether or not to offer it as [...]

I’ve been doing some research into handling XML (Extensible Markup Language) data on VOS and OpenVOS, and I thought it would be useful to share what I learned with a wider audience. WHAT IS XML? The following description of XML is taken from “XML: A Beginner’s Guide”, by Dave Mercer. (Osborne/McGraw Hill, 2001). “SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) is an international [...]