[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-06-10 20:54:52 +0000, Kerry Main said:

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> On the contrary, I view App Stacking as the way of the future in order 
> to  address both VM sprawl and significantly reduce server-server 
> latency.

Yes, it is.  No question.    At least until you're undercut by changes 
to the underlying license prices.   Which will kick the pins out from 
underneath more than a few of these discussions.   The difference being 
that your approach to app stacking — what's out there now, on OpenVMS — 
is an increasing to massive hassle to deal with beyond even a couple of 
OpenVMS hosts.    As currently "implemented", OpenVMS "app stacking" is 
a festering carbuncle of grief.   But I'm being polite, having chased 
around more than a few of the interactions among disparate apps over 
the years, ranging from the DECC$ logical names to differences of 
opinions around the required system parameter settings across disparate 
applications to finding that reinstalling an an app was the easiest way 
to deal with a host name change to dealing with conflicts around 
different patch requirements, and that's before discussing dangling 
files and settings and the remainder of app cleanups, and the utter 
morass of manually-maintained startup files.   You can keep telling me 
that this current septic tank is acceptable and even the wave of the 
future, and I'll keep my hip waders on when dealing with it and will 
keep asking for a hazmat suit and air supply.   At least until the 
septic tank gets drained and the OpenVMS version of "app stacking" gets 
rethought and redeployed.

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