[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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