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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-09-11 14:44:47 +0000, Kerry Main said:

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

Well, I am still using OpenVMS.

> 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.

Call back when at least some of that's available, and when the x86-64 
product prices and related data is published?

> 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.

Or it won't be needed.

> 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.

I think I just won buzzword bingo.

> 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.

OpenVMS has to get there first.

> Heck, the future is wide open for new solutions.
> :-)

Sure.   Being behind in a competitive market isn't a fun place to be, 
as you're largely left to compete on price, or exit.   If you haven't 
entirely missed the market window for whatever you're looking to sell.



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