[Info-vax] Wide area cluster, metro area network, seeking info

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/12/2021 12:29 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 6/12/2021 10:55 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2021-06-12 07:01:44 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
>>> and also could serve as a test node.
>>
>> I'd recommend against having a test or development host integrated
>> within a production host or within a production cluster.
> 
> +1
> 
> A production system is for just that, production, and anything else 
> happening is a risk.  (Cue Simon.)

A production system and one or more test systems and if development
need VMS then also a development system.

For native languages then a VMS development system will be needed - even
with VMS IDE. But many of the newer languages (Java, Python, PHP, Perl
etc.) then development may in many cases be done entirely on the
users PC running Windows/macOS/Linux and first go on VMS for test.

> Systems are now so inexpensive that separate systems for development is 
> the only reasonable choice.

Amazing where some companies sometime want to "save" money.

Arne