[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

Phillip Helbig undress to reply helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de
Tue Nov 17 12:41:52 EST 2020


In article <rp0tjh$15dr$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Chris
<xxx.syseng.yyy at gfsys.co.uk> writes: 

> Seems to me, a lot of people arguing why VMS should *not* have a web
> browser, again relegating VMS to a dark corner of serverism, when every
> other major OS has a web browser support and is expected as a standard
> feature. You run a web server, then you need a local browser to work on
> it ideally, not on another machine elsewhere.

Exactly.  And it avoids having to have an additional machine just to run 
the web browser.

> The more capability any system has just increases the possible market
> depth and usefulness, but with such attitudes, is any wonder that VMS
> is treated as a joke in some quarters ?. It's 2020, not 1985..

Of course, VSI can't do everything, and priorities have to be set.  
No-one expects a web browser on VMS to have a high priority, and it 
might have a priority so low that it never gets done.  But what 
surprises me is the number of people who think that it is somehow not a 
good idea.  Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds might not be the best 
programmers, but they sure are good about making people believe that 
they should drink the kool-aid.




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