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

[Richard Maher]

On 03-Jan-18 10:13 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 

As of today yes and therefore no real reason for the VMS server part to 
be a "Web App" at all, but surely the goal if not the dream is to have

browser --| VMS Web App

alone?