1991Lionheart Data Systems (LDS) createdFirst contract with an energy company. The contract lasted 15 months.1992Digital announces the first systems base on the Alpha chip1995Digital contract with LDS to provide OpenVMS classroom training.1997Digital is acquired by Compaq1999The world's #1 investment bank contracts with LDS to provide support for over 70 VMS and OpenVMS systems in the run up to the year 2000.2000 The world's #1 investment bank contracts with LDS to provide ongoing datacentre support for over 70 VMS and OpenVMS systems. The contract continued until 2008.2008The world's #2 investment bank contracts with LDS to provide application support for a financial derivatives platform based on the top end AlphaServer systems running OpenVMS. The contract continued until 2009.2010The world's #1 investment bank contracts with LDS to retire, in a controlled fashion, a number of OpenVMS systems.