[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Dave Froble]

On 8/6/2021 8:43 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <seisn0$9if$1 at dont-email.me>,
> =?UTF-8?Q?Jan-Erik_S=c3=b6derholm?= <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com>
> writes:
>
>> Den 2021-08-06 kl. 10:22, skrev Phillip Helbig (undress to reply):
>>> In article <3a9cab93-4b5f-41b4-af6b-f02dcd6458d0n at googlegroups.com>,
>>> Phil Howell <phow9917 at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> But we know your wife has a MacBook!
>>>
>>> Indeed.  One of my sons tells me that it is too old to get the latest
>>> update.
>>>
>>>> You could buy her a new M1 MacBook and use the old one for virtualbox
>>>> I'd call that a win-win
>>>
>>> But I would need at least half a dozen: three nodes is the minimum for a
>>> cluster, then spares.
>>>
>>
>> You might have described it earlier, but...
>>
>> *Why* do you need to run a cluster in your home/hobbyist environment?
>
> Because a cluster is fun.  The main reason, though, is redundancy, just
> like for other folks.  I receive email on my cluster.  With clustering
> and HBVS (members connected to different nodes), then if one node goes
> down, or a disk fails, then things continue.  It's not a hobbyist
> cluster in the sense of "boot it up, get to the DCL prompt, and play
> around".  Rather, I use it for most things for which other people use
> other computers for similar stuff.
>

So then, you are not a hobbyist?  Do you have regular licenses for all 
those systems?  Are you paying for support?

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