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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/2/2018 9:06 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2018-01-02 kl. 14:16, skrev 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.
> 
> For those specific needs, WASD is just fine.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The main reason to run a web server on VMS is that it has to be
> there to support applications and data that are on the VMS server.
> But for *that*, it works just fine.
> 
> You can still have the main web pages/applications on some other
> web environment if you want, and just run some AJAX calls against
> the VMS system to manage the data.

If we talk internet (and I somewhat assume we are give the usage
of the term "main web"), then I would recommend:

browser---standard web app---VMS web app

over:

          |--standard web app
browser--|
          |--VMS web app

for security reasons.

(plus number of firewalls and a web proxy but that applies to both)

Arne