[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-06-08 13:41:21 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:

> Bill Gunshannon skrev den 2015-06-08 15:20:
>> In article <mkt1s9$i52$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> 	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> 
>> What happened to "the right tool for the job".  Just what is it about 
>> VMS that makes it a better choice for running a webserver than one of 
>> the existing Unix options?
> 
> It is "better" if the source data already is on VMS.
> In no other case is VMS "better" as an web server.

It's not even that clear-cut.  Even if the source data is already on 
OpenVMS, it may well be beneficial to have the web server(s) running on 
separate box(es), whether that is for software availability or load 
sharing or caching or DDoS or network security partitioning or 
otherwise.

> 
>> Funny, you used mixed case in the sentence above.  The teletype is 
>> gone. we actually have 52 lettters...
> 
> 58.
> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzåäö
> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZÅÄÖ

52?   David is being somewhat parochial.

Add Spanish with 27 letters (ñ) and the acutes (é, ó, etc), French 
orthography, German, and add those to a host of other languages, and 
pretty soon you've got Unicode.

Much like the too-short username fields tend to annoy Mr. Schenkenberg, 
if your code isn't dealing with these characters in your user 
interfaces, then you can be puzzling or even irritating a subset of 
your customers.  Even for US-only products in the US, Spanish is 
increasingly commonly used.  Having at least some of your content 
localized into Spanish can help your users.


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