>>>that would be Digital OpenVMS, not Tru64. Leslie Lamport of >>>Lamport SCN fame is the same Leslie Lamport from the VMS >>>Cluster Team also the guy that built TeX for technical >>>publishing. Oracle picked up almost the entire VMS Cluster >>>dev team when Digital came apart. You missed my point. I only mentioned Tru64 as reference for platforms that supported shared Oracle Home...I wasn't referring to the personnel origens of those that have contributed to RAC/OPS internals. And even though there are former Dec/Compaq folks at Oracle, they still LICENSED the portable clusterware from Compaq. That happens to be the very clusterware implemented as OCMS on 9i and CRS on 10g -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l