[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/5/21 11:35 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 8/5/2021 9:45 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 8/5/21 9:35 AM, Chris Townley wrote:
>>> On 05/08/2021 14:29, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On 8/5/2021 9:16 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>>> And that is another issue.  In order to run VMS in a production
>>>>> environment you will now have to also run something like VMWare
>>>>> in a production environment with all the associated costs of doing
>>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>> Pulling in VMWare or similar just to run VMS would certainly
>>>> have significant cost.
>>>>
>>>> But most companies already have that in place: VMWare
>>>> and/or IaaS cloud. And it will be a cost reduction to move
>>>> VMS into the same environment that everything else is
>>>> running on.
>>>
>>> Are not they planning on supporting KVM as well?
>>
>> I didn't include KVM in my comments because I have no experience
>> with it.  But, it also suffers from some of the same potential
>> problems and costs.  Another OS and another required skillset.
> 
> Just another option.
> 
> VMWare has the biggest marketshare.
> 
> But there are also Hyper-V, KVM, Xen etc..
> 

I have used Hyper-V extensively, too.  It requires rather deep
and extensive MS Windows knowledge.  And a complete and fully
functional Windows environment.  Something frequently attacked
here by VMS users.  :-)

bill