[Info-vax] AWS introduces VMS PaaS

[Richard Maher]

On 11-Jul-17 10:13 PM, IanD wrote:
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> All done out of India too?  (sorry, I worked for an Indian IT outsouring company for more than 5 years. Their understanding of VMS was shall we say less than optimal - yes I realise the irony of that statement also points the finger at myself!)
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I'll ignore the racial stereotyping ;-) For Oz Microsoft offers Sydney, 
Melbourne, and Singapore as arbiter.

> And VMS then heads down the path of yet another commodity platform

Another cash-flow string to its bow? YES!
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> The question still remains, just what market segment is VMS trying to establish itself in?

What markets can it afford not to be in? "Workstation" is definitely 
one, commodity server solution (x86 remember?) is NOT!
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> All we need now is a decent scripting language and we can move into the automation space also
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> What was that need for a VMS cluster in a cloud again?

A very elegant and feature rich yet failed technology :-( What was the 
maximum nodes again? Geographic distances? There are other "better" 
solutions.
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