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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-01-02, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <p2f74t$24f$1 at dont-email.me>, DaveFroble
><davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 
>
>> If I can run a decent sized company on one VMS system, with all apps,
>> with the exception of office automation and web servers, 
>
> I'm not sure about office automation---depends on what you mean by 
> it---but if you are running everything on VMS anyway, why in the world 
> would you want to run a web server on another platform?
>

So you can have a web server with up to date security patches and
far better support for the modern web infrastructure ecosystem.

A little over a decade ago, I switched from running a web server
on VMS to running it on Linux and my one regret was that I didn't
do this sooner.

Simon.

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