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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/5/21 11:58 AM, John Dallman wrote:
> 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
> 

What do you think? Some of them were here.  :-)

bill