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

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On
> Behalf Of johnson.eric--- via Info-vax
> Sent: 13-Sep-16 4:41 AM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: johnson.eric at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] VMS and the Internet of Things
(IoT)
> 
> On Monday, September 12, 2016 at 10:55:06 PM UTC-4,
> Kerry Main wrote:
> 
> > To go after the mainframe market, you need a non-X86
> platform ...
> 
> I really don't understand why you feel this way about x86.
> To me, it's so far down the technology stack that it's
almost
> akin to complaining about your power supply. Could you
> imagine someone telling you that 120V is the best and 220V
> is just not right?
> 
> Or to put it differently, when I hear you say "you need a
> non-X86 platform", I hear you say "you need to be the
weird
> one". VMS has been weird for so long for so many that it
> would be best served by doing everything it can to be less
> weird.
> 
> EJ
>

You need to understand the mainframe culture.  

If you think OpenVMS groups feel their capabilities have
been overlooked in the past, just ask someone from the
mainframe world what they think about "distributed systems".

:-)

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com