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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-09-12 kl. 17:09, skrev Kerry Main:
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>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] VMS and the Internet of
> Things
>> (IoT)
>>
>> On 2016-09-12 13:34:21 +0000, Kerry Main said:
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>>> Does this answer the question of being capable of
>> addressing the
>>> mid-tier layer in the IoT world??
>>
>> That OpenVMS can do classic SCADA is known.
>>
>> There's more to what's necessary now, too.   Unless
>> you want the
>> insecurity of IoT now, or of some of the classic
> SCADA
>> configurations.
>>
>> Nobody is going to want to use an x86-64 box in
>> Simon's middle IoT
>> tier, much less an Itanium, either.   Too expensive.
>>
>
> See the link I just posted and the reason they chose
> the QEI OpenVMS solution. They wanted the middle tier
> to be disaster tolerant.
>
> Generally speaking, I expect many more future solutions
> to have similar requirements.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kerry Main
> Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com
>
>

I think it is as simple as that:

"Middle IoT tier" != "Middle SCADA tier" != "Middle XYZ tier".

Nothing will move forward if you keep on talking
around each other...