[Info-vax] IBM nearing deal to acquire Red Hat

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <q93d5h$1k0k$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
<arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> Today: you start your browser and go to the self service page,
> you request 200 VM's and upload standard images. After an hour
> everything is running. End of day you remove instances as they
> were only needed for the day. End of month your department
> get charged for 200 x 7 = 1400 VM hours. No one from the
> IT department does anything as everything is fully automated.

Yes.  Times have changed.

When VMS runs on x86, how easy will it be to run VMS on a standard cloud 
platform?