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

[clair.grant@vmssoftware.com]

On Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 10:32:41 PM UTC-4, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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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These are details I just do not follow. I'm sure those who use these services will know the answers. We just need to get VMS to run on as many platforms as possible so it is an option where appropriate.