[Info-vax] ODS-5 data/file recovery

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-02-17 15:14:18 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply said:

>> 
>> OpenVMS is not particularly packaged for, nor targeted at home users,
>> nor home offices, nor small businesses.  OpenVMS aims much higher, and
>> more specialized.
> 
> Whatever happened to "desktop to datacenter"?

What happened to the old DEC "desktop to the datacenter" slogan from 
~1990 or so?    Mostly, the 1990s and Microsoft happened to it.  
Microsoft Windows 95 and particularly Windows NT happened, which led to 
the Windows NT Affinity program from DEC, and to the scaling that's now 
available with Windows and Windows Server.

DEC and most other vendors ceded the desktop to Microsoft Windows, and 
vendors variously helped folks migrate to Windows.

In recent years, that scaling runs from mobile to cloud, too.  Linux — 
in its guise as Android, and on up to the cloud configurations — and 
Microsoft Windows and Windows RT and Windows Server certainly provide 
the mobile and desktop and data center and cloud coverage.

The old DEC OpenVMS selling point of running the same binaries for an 
app on a mobile or desktop device — and also on a data center or cloud 
server — turned out to be less than interesting to customers, though.  
As various vendors have also learned when dealing with either the power 
and battery constraints of mobile devices or with the disconnects and 
latency of DC/cloud services, using even the same designs can currently 
be somewhat of a bad compromise, too.  This with Android and Linux, and 
with the various Windows distros.

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