[Info-vax] Marketing ideas for VSI ?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-12-17 20:02:54 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:

> One really interesting thing are cluster-wide logical names.  They 
> don't  have to be in the cluster table; they could be in a group table 
> with the  cluster table as the parent (I wonder if I was the first to 
> think of  this).  Software running in multiple batch queues across 
> several nodes  can thus easily communicate.

Imagine having all your contact information available out there, too.  
And your mail server.  And your hashed password.  And the protection 
settings for your computer and your account.  And imagine having that 
across clusters.  And imagine having multiple servers storing the data, 
and keeping the data consistent as servers come and go.   Pretty soon, 
you've re-invented LDAP.   Or sure, you can use what is a limited 
key-value preferences store with no hierarchical storage and limited 
flexibility and with a proclivity for collisions, and with a limited 
API.  Alas, OpenVMS makes the former far too difficult and the latter 
far too inviting.


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