Farewell
to Academic OpenVMS Servers
By
John Chan
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Due to the world trend
of streamlining the operating systems to Unix-based and to avoid
duplication of our limited resources, all academic OpenVMS Alpha
or VAX servers will gradually be phased out. These include the
Alpha machines Texas and Spain, and the VAX machine
Cairo, all of which are part of the Alpha Cluster nodes.
The first phase will involve discontinuing
the VAX machine Cairo, and will be completed before the
next academic year starts. The second phase will be over by the
end of next academic year and the Alpha machines Texas
and Spain will be de-commissioned and no more support will
be provided. However, the central machines for the staff e-mail
servers, which are also OpenVMS-based, will not be affected.
Users are then urged to migrate all
teaching and research work to the Solaris systems as soon as possible.
Most of the software provided on the OpenVMS systems have their
counterparts under Solaris. If you have any queries, anticipate
any problems, or have difficulties on the migration, please feel
free to write to us at cc@plink.cityu.edu.hk.