alt Hacker NewsOh Tandem, you don’t hear that much anymore. They still have plenty of them still running banks and what not under the name HP non-stop.
Oh Tandem, you don’t hear that much anymore. They still have plenty of them still running banks and what not under the name HP non-stop.
yeah - the big difference was Tandem was software (+ hardware) fault tolerant while Stratus was full hardware level fault tolerant. This gave Tandem a real price edge.
Both were really popular with banks and brokerage houses (back when I worked with stratus at brokerages, HFT was just emerging and down time was umm... frowned upon :-D