[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <ml4hth$4fh$1 at dont-email.me>,
	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> In article <mktg9v$6jo$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> 	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> 
>>> Perhaps there are VMS problems that customers can use VMS to solve in 
>>> the most effective manner?
>> 
>> Name one.
> 
> What does my being able to name one have to do with reality.  I 
> certainly don't have every problem in the world.

The point is that no business has a VMS or a Unix or even a Windows
"problem".  What they have is a business problem. 

> 
> Are you implying that VMS is never the best solution?

No, but in its current state, after years (decades?) of neglect
it lacks much of what is needed to solve today's business problems.

> 
> But Ok, you tossed down the gauntlet, and I can provide one sure answer.
> 
> Running VAX/DEC/HP Basic applications.  Not only is VMS the best 
> solution, it is the only solution.

My point exactly.  That is a specific application problem and not a
business problem.  Or are you  implying that it would impossible to
do what your software does (just hwat is that, I wonder?) in any
language other than VAX/DEC/HP Basic?  I hardly think so.  Remember,
we are talking about the task, not the specific implementation.

> 
> I'm sure you'll come back with one of your smart-ass replys, but, you 
> issued the challenge, not me, and I've successfully met it.
> 
>:-)

Sorry, but you have not.  You have merely reinforced the idea I (and
others) have been trying to get accross.  It's not the OS, it's not
the language the application is written in.  It is the functionality
of the application that the business needs.

bill

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