[Info-vax] Accuweather new contract

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <XApkMICdto8Q at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <cnahfkFh43jU4 at mid.individual.net>, bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> 
>> Might want to talk with him again.  In the past week I have seen numerous
>> commercials lately claiming Accuweather is based on "The Microsoft Cloud".
>> I doubt that is VMS based. 
> 
>    I suspect they have PCs on desks.  And I suspect that is not thier
>    compute engine for weather forcasting.

"The Microsoft Cloud" is not "PCs on desks".  This whole "cloud" thing
is being pushed as the ability to have massive compute power without
having to buy the compute engines themselves.

> 
>    But VMS can play in an MS authentication and access MS servers, so
>    I suspwect it could be convinced to access either of those "in the
>    Cloud" since the one established fact of Cloud technology is its
>    nebulousness.
 
Keep those heads firmly in the sand.

bill

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