Nothingwas removed from onStop to make it "more Unix"
NonStop is indeed an offer only HP can make to solve the issues of mission critical computing. There has not been a strategy to "make NonStop into Unix". What has happened instead is that the Unix APIs and look-and-feel (except the downtime experience :-) ) were made available to NonStop users. The NonStop OS (formerly known as Guardian-90 and NonStop Kernel), supports both operating environments. At the level where it really counts, all the data access (NonStop SQL MP, NonStop SQL/MX, traditional file system), as well as the scalable application environment (Pathway, Webserver, Java application container based on Tomcat, Hibernate etc), still inherit the exact same availability, scalability and data integrity fundamentals as those used by traditional Tandem servers running Guardian.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
