[Info-vax] Accuweather new contract

[David Froble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
> 

Got to love that sand.  At least as much as Accuweather being a VMS 
field test site ....

:-)

You need to quit reverting to pre-VSI form ....