[Info-vax] Distributed Applications, Hashgraph, Automation

[IanD]

On Saturday, February 17, 2018 at 1:30:10 PM UTC+11, Kerry Main wrote:

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> Last 10 years was all about reducing HW costs.
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> Next 10 years will be all about reducing SW costs.
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...and the removal of any specific hardware awareness from the application so that you interface with virtual layers only. Virtual IP's, Virtual devices, virtual everything

No hardware dependencies at the application level is wanted. Automated deployments, DevOPS, firewalls / networks all managed from generic interfaces with the hard work done by software underneath so humans don't need to learn the complexities of what is underneath (except when it all blows up of course!). 

Hardware lock-in begone, software lock-in begone, humans to tend things, begone

Business want the ability to deploy over both private, public cloud or  physical servers and mix n match components at will without the need for tear down and/or to specifically reconfigure

VMS clusters have got a long way to go before they can adhere to this dynamic  model

> Oracle, SAP and similar App / DB players with ridiculous pricing are in for some very tough years ahead. 
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They are being exited out the door as simply too expensive, especially when they push their own barrow. They no longer hold the exclusive ability to unite the disparate parts of the business together

> History - Windows/Linux X86-64 servers were never really considered technically "better" than Solaris/SPARC, OpenVMS/Tru64 Alpha etc in their prime.
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> However, Customers viewed Windows/Linux X86-64 as "good enough". 
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> Same thing is coming for the big SW companies.
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This is the same argument I've said about VMS Clusters

Linux clusters, no matter how crippled or fickle compared to VMS clusters, are considered 'good enough', because other layers have stepped in, be it application of some other like Hadoop etc