[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[David Froble]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2016-06-10, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>
>>>   If you're 
>>> doing fifty or five hundred servers or if you need rapid updates due to 
>>> security vulnerabilities or other serious issues, you're in deep 
>>> sneakers.   And most everything here is only going to need to happen 
>>> faster.
>>>
>>> *This* is app stacking and containers and sandboxes.
>>>
>> This is not the world I live in, and so I must admit that any views I have just 
>> aren't applicable.
> 
> Actually David, while I do think you do need to expose yourself more
> to new ideas and see if they can bring benefits to you, I also think
> your views _are_ applicable.

Nor did I mean my views aren't applicable, in general.  I've never seen a 
computer room, or building, or whatever, with 50 VMS systems.  I have seen a 
single VMS system perhaps running large numbers of apps, if not as many as 50, 
and I've seen single VMS systems supporting hundreds of users.

One customer long ago had I believe 6 11/780 or 785 or 782 systems and a 750. 
Today I'd guess the entire load could be supported by one system.

To be more specific, if you got 50 VMS systems, then perhaps my views aren't 
applicable for that site.

> Stephen likes to talk about the large internet focused companies with
> a requirement for massive amounts of automation and web based stuff
> and that is certainly a valid requirement. However, by number, those
> companies are not the majority of the companies in existence and all
> the different types of companies have different requirements.

They may not be the majority, but, 50 VMS systems is the same in sales as single 
VMS systems to 50 customers.  I tend to think it's a market worth pursuing.  Not 
that I would know how to do so.

> What you bring to the table is detailed real-world knowledge of actual
> computing business requirements in a different type of company.
> 
> Simon.
>