[Info-vax] OpenVMS servers and clusters as a cloud service

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/1/2018 2:54 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/1/2018 2:41 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> So in general it is less common than it once was.  You still see it on 
>> a lot
>> of VMS systems because they tend to be run by people from 30 years 
>> ago.  But
>> the kids don't know about it, they view it as esoteric and 
>> complicated, and
>> they need to be told how easy and convenient it is.
> 
> Even on VMS it is my impression that a lot of systems only run one
> thing: RDB or Oracle DB or that COBOL application (sure - usually
> more than one program but still part of the same application)
> or that Fortran application or that XXXX.

One exception I think - I believe it is way more common
to run both application and database on the same system
on VMS than on other platforms.

Arne