[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-06-10 16:13:32 +0000, Kerry Main said:

> No. App stacking is not only possible, but it is has been part of the 
> culture of OpenVMS Customer environments for decades.

Sure.   If by "app stacking" you mean the 1970s through the 2000s, at 
least in terms of features, capabilities, isolation and ease of 
automation.

What you keep pointing to as "app stacking" is increasingly 
problematic, at best.

If Stark gets traction and starts scaling and starts having to do 
faster deployments and redeployments and upgrades — certainly a good 
thing — then you're going to start encountering these limits in OpenVMS.

Or you're going to end up rolling out piles of custom code, or porting 
existing devops and deployment tools.

For end-users, rolling out custom code and custom automation for devops 
is a cost, not a benefit.

> The challenge with commodity OS's

I'm rather less interested in how things were and how things are now, 
as — from a software development perspective — that's history.

It's how things will be — not how they are or were — that matters to 
Stark and to other current and potential customers of OpenVMS, and to 
VSI.

If your experience is limited to HPE and Windows and OpenVMS, and I'd 
recommend spending some time further afield, too.



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