[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/27/2018 4:25 AM, Hans Bachner wrote:
> Jan-Erik Söderholm schrieb am 25.12.2018 um 10:38:
>> [...]
>>
>> As have been said many times, a web *browser* is wasted money on VMS.
>> No sane person uses VMS as their "office desktop" today. [...]
> 
> I'm certainly not asking for a full desktop environment on OpenVMS, but 
> a reasonable/usable browser should be rather high on the list. Given the 
> fact that most support stuff (patches, kits, ...) is accessible through 
> a browser (only, in many cases), there should be a way to directly 
> download this stuff to a VMS box and not go through intermediate systems 
> with different OSs.
> 
> Well, VSI offers their kits/ECOs on an SFTP server which changes 
> requirements a bit. But the old HP(E) interface into the patch website 
> was quite good, where you could look at details of individual ECO kits 
> and add them to your download list. I don't know how it looks today as 
> partners (DSPP/AllianceONE) have been locked out for quite a while now.

Besides business case of high cost of browser and little to none
additional revenue, then this particular case also has some
security issues.

It is not common to allow running a browser, connect to internet and
download kits from a production system today. And the difference
between downloading on a VMS system and moving to a VMS system versus
downloading on a Windows/Linux/Mac system and moving to a VMS
system is not that big.

Arne