[Info-vax] IBM Layoffs

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Kerry Main skrev den 2015-01-27 01:55:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
>> Jan-Erik Soderholm
>> Sent: 26-Jan-15 5:35 PM
>> To: info-vax at info-vax.com
>> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] IBM Layoffs
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> Outsourcing has many faces .. one model is based on outsourcer
> simply taking over mgmt of the existing tech/staff resources at the
> existing DC.

Sure, but I specificaly commented to the part that said
"outsource to a distant data centre". We have a lot of
barcode scanners, PLCs and thermaltransfer label printers.
Hard to run in "the cloud".

I do not think that we will see a large part of the remaining
VMS market move to "the cloud".

Jan-Erik.