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

[Chris]

On 09/12/16 19:43, Simon Clubley wrote:

>
> Thank you Jan-Erik; you are absolutely right.
>
> Kerry keeps talking with a "big systems" mindset and not an
> embedded systems/IoT mindset; everyone else is correctly talking
> with the embedded systems/IoT mindset.
>
> I wonder if Kerry really doesn't get it or if he understands all
> too well how poorly VMS would fair in that area so instead he
> keeps trying to move the discussion to an unrelated area in
> which VMS has had some historical success.
>
> Simon.
>
> PS: I agree with you that there's a lot of hype in the IoT world;
> I'm skipping over the hype for the most part in this discussion
> and I'm just trying to bring some facts and reasoning to the
> discussion about the technologies which are being talked about.
>

It's about using appropriate tech to solve the problem, no more
and no less. VMS runs only on a single platform right now, most
likely power hungry, space inefficient etc. A data center server
product that works well for it's intended application. Embedded
/ real time system cover a very wide and expanding field. Iphone,
avionics computers, hand held sat nav, domestic appliance
controllers, set top boxes, hearing aids and heart pacemakers.
An almost infinite range of applications, everywhere where
intelligent control needs to be built into a product.

The point is that VMS would be very poor fit for the majority
of embedded applications, where minimum cost, size and power
consumption are primary factors. I know it's been used for
factory automation (eg: Intel & Vax historically), but that
task can also be handled by much more modern and industry
standard hardware and os's these days. VMS has no USP in
that area and it would need to compete with a whole range of
specialist vendors who have been in the business for decades...

Chris
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