[Info-vax] VMS and the Internet of Things (IoT)

[Kerry Main]

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> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax
> Sent: 11-Sep-16 9:36 AM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] VMS and the Internet of Things
> (IoT)
> 
> On 2016-09-11 10:16:52 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
> 
> > So that's my take on the IoT. What's yours and where do
> you see a
> > possible place for VMS within the IoT world ?
> 
> OpenVMS is ill-suited as an embedded operating system
> or as an
> intermediate controller or aggregator.   It's been priced
> out of those
> markets for decades.    That's also without discussing
> currently-missing or currently-weak features and
> hardware support and
> power management that would be desirable or required
> in those markets,
> and (the lack of) which will preclude OpenVMS in those
> deployments.
> 

[snip..]

You are looking at solving requirements of the future through experiences gained via the rear view window of the past.

The OpenVMS of the past with HP and its expensive licenses on proprietary, expensive HW designed to compete with Solaris and AIX should not be compared to OpenVMS on X86-64 (possibly ARM??) with a new TCPIP stack, new file system, new security features and (hopefully) a new licensing model with V9+ versions designed to compete with other OS's on the X86-64 platform.

I view today's world as being a transition period where VSI is rapidly gearing up to address the requirements of the future.

Remember - No matter what technology is leading in market share today, it will be replaced at some point in the future with something else.

The world is changing from a very distributed world to one that may still maintain a tiered App model, but these tiers are being physically deployed on heavily centralized physical server infrastructures with TB of local memory. I would also suggest we may also start seeing these tiers being consolidated as well in order to reduce overall solution latency.

OpenVMS may not have that many advantages in a heavily distributed world of the past 20 years, but it sure has loads of experience in a heavily centralized world.

Heck, the future is wide open for new solutions. 

:-)

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com