[Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan

[Main, Kerry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On
> Behalf Of Bob Koehler
> Sent: January-11-10 3:31 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan
> 
> In article <hiev8l$oq9$01$1 at news.t-online.com>, Michael Kraemer
> <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
> >
> > In my experience the amount of necessary daily support is
> > roughly proportional to the number of users,
> > especially on the desktop.
> 
>    In my experience the amount of daily support is much more closely
>    related to the stability of the OS and the self-consistency of the
>    user interface.
> 

Yep, stability of OS is much more of an issue than HW reliability these days.

Also, the number of OS instances required is another biggie. When combined, i.e.
the stability (monthly security patches etc) with the huge numbers of OS 
instances, the question has to be asked "can you afford Windows and/or Linux?"

With OpenVMS, it is is very common to run multiple Apps and even DB's in the 
same cluster and even on the same OS instance.

However, with Windows and Linux servers, the culture is such that they have
grown up with every App group having their own server and hence it is very
difficult to convince App groups on Wintel/Linux that they should share the
same OS instance.

It's one of the reasons why VMware is so popular i.e. it allows one to save 
some HW costs, but also does not force one to break the one OS, one bus App
culture.

Unfortunately, one of the next big things coming is VM consolidation and
that is when it is going to get real ugly in the Wintel/Linux world.



Regards,

Kerry Main
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