[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/4/2021 7:26 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 8/4/2021 3:44 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <sed01d$apv$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
>> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>> So why would anyone wait?  For today,
>>> VMS on x86 is the future.
>>
>> Right.  But if people want to port their application to bare-metal x86,
>> few if any will start before that bare-metal x86 is available.
> 
> Now that is just plain wrong.  VMS is VMS, regardless if running in a VM 
> instance, or not.  Actually, VM instances will be better for porting 
> work.  One doesn't need a production level computer to do porting work.

For development work a VM is just so much more convenient.

And in the end I suspect a large number of production deployments
will end up in VM's as well.

Much fewer "hardware" configs to consider - there are a trillion
physical x86-64 hardware combinations out there - a few will
be supported - many will work but not be supported - and some
will not work.

New server CPU's typical has 16/24/32 cores. Not many will
need that much power for their VMS system. Using it all will
be a waste of resources.

Arne