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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 01/02/2018 11:24 PM, DaveFroble wrote:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 01/02/2018 09:05 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 1/2/2018 3:01 PM, 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 must plead guilty to knowing absolute nothing about
>>> "Windows Server 2015".
>>>
>>> ;-)
>>>
>>> Arne
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Take your pick, 2003, 20012, now 2015.  They are all Windows Servers
>> and if people think they only run one application at a time, well.....
>>
>> bill
>>
> 
> Bill, I've developed on weendoze.  Didn't like it.  Felt like I was 
> stepping down to a lesser environment.
> 

Mostly a matter of opinion. 99% of the industry would say the same
about VMS.  I don't particularly like Windows either but that is
where the industry is.  In any event my only complaint all along
(for quite some time now!) has been people claiming weaknesses in
Windows that don't exist.

Personally, now that I am retired and don;t get copies of Windows
on someone else's dime as my versions expire I am moving all of
my home systems to Linux.  I have never thought os Windows as
being worth the price.

bill