[Info-vax] What Will Drive More OpenVMS Adoption?

[John Dallman]

In article <j148c3Fn5vaU1 at mid.individual.net>, bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
(Bill Gunshannon) wrote:

> And yet, for at least the past 15 years, anytime I have brought
> up a need for efficient programming I am told (by Professors
> and practitioners of the trade) that it is irrelevant, "Just
> throw more hardware at it!"  Wouldn't the same apply to using
> non-standard extensions to get "the best performance you can
> reasonably get"?  We're not running VAXen any more and we have
> more than 12MB of memory.

When you're dealing with databases in the terrabyte range, efficiency
becomes important. Throwing more hardware at problems hits two
limitations: (a) customers' budgets, when you're an ISV, and (b) the lack
of available higher-powered hardware after a certain point. 

Academics sometimes don't seem to understand the scale of the data sets
in commercial use. Were the "practitioners" people actually engaged in
delivering systems to customers, or were they consultants? 

John