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[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-01-02, Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote:
> Stephen Hoffman schrieb:
>
>> Careful there Jan-Erik, you might just join me as the newest member of 
>> the Club of the Not Nice (Anymore).  Yes, there are far better operating 
>> system choices for SOHO uses and for multimedia and as file servers, but 
>> Phillip has been quite clear and entirely indefatigable with his desire 
>> to apply OpenVMS for SOHO use.  
>
> So we now have learned that we shouldn't use VMS for reading
> mail and browsing the web, now we shouldn't use it for data storage,
> and very recently even downtime has become an option.
> This leaves exactly which use for VMS?
>

Data storage in this case refers to new types of data such as audio and
video media in various formats. VMS is way not suitable for that.

It's still suitable for use in some business environments, especially
mission critical ones, when you need to manipulate traditional data types.

Simon.

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