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Re:Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running co... by matt_wulfeck on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @09:26PM (#13547560)
> the few who are actually skilled in it can command pretty decent salaries and benefits, and we'll search around the world to find them.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of numbers are you talking about?

> On the other hand, we ARE looking at questions like how to get it to run in the cloud.

Call me a masochist but that sounds really fun.

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Re:Stratus: Servers that won’t quit – The 24 year running co... by mcherm on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:24AM (#13551706)
> Just out of curiosity, what kind of numbers are you talking about?

Unfortunately, that's exactly the kind of thing my employer does not want me to talk about.

> Call me a masochist but that sounds really fun.

Oh, it is. It's actually a really interesting project, and from what I've seen so far I think it may well be fully successful and go live with our actual customer records by mid-year 2017.

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