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As much as i love Plan9, it's in dire need of bugfixes if you're gonna expose it to the net. Last official release was ~15 years ago

How are z/OS, AIX, or HP-UX non-commercial? In particular z/OS is still being developed and sold by IBM.

You're extrapolating, he didn't say that.

or she

>OpenVMS

I suspect by “battle-tested” they didn’t mean World War 2.

(/s of course, and trying out the x86 port is high on my TODO list.)

On a serious note, I dearly wish someone had taken the lessons of OpenVMS into the open source world. Its clustering is amazing.

Could you elaborate/provide a few reading pointers please?

https://vmssoftware.com/products/clusters/

We had machines in two buildings with multiple machines in the cluster. You could upgrade machines in a cluster and not lose any time. I thought DragonflyBSD is trying to head in that direction with storage (HAMMER).

I believe the problem here is business-level, and this can’t really be fixed technically. The problem is, this kind of design requires organized commitment to run it to completion, and can’t work in a culture focused on dropping a half-working MVP early and then failing to follow up.

Latest release was 2 months ago.