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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 01/02/2018 09:27 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2018-01-02 21:01, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 01/02/2018 05:59 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> One application per machine is such a nonsensical and uninformed 
>>> belief that it almost blows my mind. I can't comment on Windows at 
>>> all, but in the Unix/Linux world, nothing could be further from the 
>>> truth.
>>
>> So, you are running Windows Server 2015.  You have 500 thin-clients
>> or zero-clients. Should we assume they are all just accessing that
>> one application?  Oops.  Maybe the reason so many people here still
>> see VMS as the only correct answer is because they really have no idea
>> what the rest of the industry is actually doing.
> 
> I'll quote myself: "I can't comment on Windows at all, but in the 
> Unix/Linux worls, nothing could be further from the truth."
> 
> But if you can comment on the Windows side, I'll leave that field to 
> you. :-)
> 
>    Johnny
> 

I've been running Windows servers since the NT 3.51 days.
Not my preference, but it payed the bills.

bill