[Info-vax] IBM Layoffs

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

JF Mezei skrev den 2015-01-26 20:57:
> On 15-01-26 14:39, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
>> Hosting VMS, for VMS customers.  This opportunity is pretty obvious for
>> a vendor with licensing rights to VMS and related products,
>> particularly if the vendor can create and manage pairs of data centers
>> located within range of clustering and HBVS, and preferably on separate
>> electric and communications grids and drainages.
>
> It depends on the needs of the installed base. Hard to outsource to a
> distant data centre  a VMS host that drives machinery with
> analogue/digital interfaces etc.
>

Right, we are right these days finishing a project to connect
a number of Mitsubishi PLC in production machinery to our VMS
system. That would be hard (at least harder) to a distant
"cloud" someware.