[Info-vax] Updated HPE/VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2L1 Marketing Brochures

[Paul Sture]

On 2016-10-01, Bob Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> wrote:
>
> Clearly, the best choice is to move to 8.4 (preferably 8.4-2L1), then
> when x86-64 becomes available, do that transition. My personal
> recommendation remains as it has always been, use the smallest viable
> system to do the jump, use the small system to develop empirical
> performance results to size an actual production environment.
>

I rather agree on the "smallest viable systems to do the jump" aspect.

I have too many times come across systems developed on the latest and
greatest hardware which have resulted in user disappointment when run on
the planned production hardware.

That still happens of course.  The app developer with lots of RAM, SSDs
all round plus a fat internet pipe isn't going to see the bottlenecks
experienced by either the home user or the large corporate who are
running on systems which are several years old.

Of course, forcing your developers to work on old slow systems isn't the
best way forward.  You can resolve this by ensuring that you have test
systems which are reasonably close in spec to target production systems.

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