[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

David Froble skrev den 2015-06-09 03:11:
> Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk skrev den 2015-06-08 21:06:
>>> On Monday, 8 June 2015 19:40:59 UTC+1, Jan-Erik Soderholm  wrote:
>>>> David Froble skrev den 2015-06-08 19:21:
>>>>> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Exactly.  I would never run a webserver on a machine that was intended
>>>>>> to do the data processing for the business.
>>>>>
>>>>> It would depend, but I'd usually agree with this.
>>>>
>>>> David, how many web servers have *you* setup and managed?
>>>> On VMS or on any platform?
>>>>
>>>> There isn't anything magic with a web server, it is just
>>>> another application out there. You can use it and you can
>>>> missuse it as much as you like. Just as any application
>>>
>>> It's not really to do with whether Dave's run a webserver...
>>
>> Dave's "I'll never touch *that*" and "don't run *that* here" attitude
>> has very much to do with inexperience within the actual area.
>
> Whhoooooohhhhhh!
>
> Where is that coming from?  Some citations maybe?
>
> On this specific topic I wrote that it depends, not "never".

 >> Exactly.  I would never run a webserver on a machine that was
 >> intended to do the data processing for the business.

Doesn't it say "never" there?

>
>> I'have been running web servers on VMS since our MicroVAX 3100/90
>> was the factory main system with great success. And I have no
>> problem putting a web server on any "modern" VMS system today.
>
> Nor do I from a technical perspective.
>
>> The usual reaction is, "Oh, can you do *that* with *that* system?".
>
> That's lack of knowledge, and we already know who to blame for that.
>
>> Note, I have no problem that other web service things are run
>> on other servers where that specific web application runs best.
>> (And that is more or less everything else around the web that
>> doesn't have any connection to our VMS applications or data.)
>>
>> It is always a matter of using the right tool from the right toolbox.
>> Sometimes the toolbox as a sign saying "VMS", sometimes the toolbox
>> has some other sign...
>>
>> But saying, "oh, I'd never use *that* tool from *my* VMS toolbox",
>> is simply silly.
>
> And I didn't write that.

No, that was a general remark around some of the usual standponts here.
Not specificaly or exactly something you wrote... :-)

But "I would never run a webserver on a machine that was
intended to do the data processing for the business" is
not that far from that.