[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/20/2018 1:17 PM, IanD wrote:
> On Monday, August 20, 2018 at 12:10:06 PM UTC+10, Kerry Main wrote:
>> Those that try to implement the DevOps concept are either part of a small
>> office or have no experience in the culture of medium to large IT
>> environments.

> Where I work now is not a small organisation in terms of IT.
> In 2016 (I'm using Google data), they spent 1.9B on IT. That's 5.2 million a day. I think that qualifies as at least a medium IT shop
> 
> They have already begun moving to a DevOps model and it's working rather well for them

And it is not the only place. I posted a list of some companies.

> DevOps is not pie-in-sky but it does take time to deploy and move towards

> It's not a silver bullet and it will not solve every IT issue out
> there but in terms of the next logical layer over the IT landscape, I
> think it's doing ok. You also need to remodel how your groups
> interact with one another too, turning those processes into DevOps
> compliant models is part an parcel of a total DevOps solution
> The real question is how will VMS mingle in such a crowd and turn-heads?
> How will it stand out and offer value against this backdrop of near real time reconfiguration offerings?

As a starting point VMS will definitely need to offer some of the
features expected today to support cloud, containers, devops etc..

> HP harped on a lot about the cost of ownership with VMS, that fell on
> deaf ears by and large. People stopped listening when they saw the
> cost of VMS! Linux simply hammered VMS out of existence on this
> point

A competitive price is also a must.

Arne