[Info-vax] Accuweather new contract

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-03-23 13:42:10 +0000, Bob Koehler said:

> 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.

Particularly given the scale of computing involved with weather 
forecasting, a back-end engine, Apollo <http://hp.com/go/apollo> would 
probably be a better bet.  If the folks are not going for something yet 
bigger and faster.   "Clouding" those forecasting models will likely be 
more expensive than in-house computing, even given the need for 
swapping out an Apollo-like box every few years.

> 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.

Have you tried those OpenVMS interfaces, for this or for similar cases? 
 OpenVMS has no SMB/CIFS client short of command-line file transfers, 
no WebDAV client short of command-line transfers, no distributed 
computing support short of porting over or writing your own, and where 
the external authentication is limited to account status and password 
support whether connecting to Microsoft Active Directory, to Open 
Directory or other LDAP-compatible servers.  Could you connect OpenVMS 
to "the cloud"?  Sure.  But there are easier ways to do that.


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