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

[Dave Froble]

On 4/16/2019 8:40 PM, clair.grant at vmssoftware.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 6:02:40 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 4/16/2019 5:26 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> When VMS runs on x86, how easy will it be to run VMS on a standard cloud
>>> platform?
>>
>> Very easy I hope.
>>
>> I believe running in VM and cloud support are high on VSI roadmap.
>>
>> But I don't know specifically if they have said that it will
>> run in AWS and Azure.
>>
>> Arne
>
> Here is the way I look at it. Let's say I sign up for some compute
time with AWS and I need to run my apps on Windows. AWS will give me a
VM guest running Windows. The real question is, what hypervisor is
providing that guest? Hyper-V, VMware, kvm, xen? This what VSI needs to
provide...the ability to run in as many guest environments as is
reasonable so you can run your VMS applications in a standard cloud
provider.
>
> Clair
>

Question for you Clair.

I'm not at all familiar with "the cloud", I know nothing.

As things are today, if say AWS gives you a VM guest, I'm guessing it is 
software they (the cloud) has available to them, on their server(s). 
You then want to run WEENDOZE on that VM.  Do you provide the software, 
or, does AWS have copies of WEENDOZE ready to use?  Then taking that a 
bit further, if you want to run VMS on a VM that AWS supplies.  Will AWS 
have copies of VMS available for you, or, would you have to load VMS on 
that VM over the internet?

Just wondering what your thoughts are on such an event, and who has 
copies of VMS?

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