When one of our administrative staff printed a report that used to take 30 to 45 minutes to generate and it came out instantaneously, she wondered if there was a problem with the system. I had to tell her there wasn't: the system was just that much faster.

The Charon solution worked exactly as it said it would. UBS gave us the level of backup that made it practical for us to do the installation ourselves, and they were always available on the phone when we needed them.

Space is a big commodity. Using Charon-VAX, we went from refrigerator-sized VAX hardware that also required a refrigerator-sized array, to a modern, rackable HP DL 2U server.