[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Bill Gunshannon skrev den 2015-06-08 17:29:
> In article <ml47on$p8t$1 at dont-email.me>,
> 	Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>> On 2015-06-08 13:41:21 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:
>>
>>> Bill Gunshannon skrev den 2015-06-08 15:20:
>>>> In article <mkt1s9$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.
>
> Exactly.  I would never run a webserver on a machine that was intended
> to do the data processing for the business.

Just silly. Of course. Speaks more about the "other" platforms that
you might have experience from then anything else. Saying "never"
is wrong in a case like this where the right answer is "it depends".


>
>>
>>>
>>>> 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.
>
> Not David this time, bill.   :-)
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> I was, of course, merely refering to ASCII which has 26 upper and lowercase
> letters.

ASCII close to as outdated as the Teletype.
The "A" says it all. Make it WWSCII instead... :-)