[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/14/2021 8:25 AM, chris wrote:
> On 09/14/21 13:16, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 9/14/2021 12:41 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <shopgc$b49$3 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
>>> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>> On 9/13/2021 8:01 PM, chris wrote:
>>>>> A lot of system management is done via browsers, for years now. Also,
>>>>> for software dev, nothing beats a windowing system with multiple
>>>>> terminal windows and tabbed full screen editors. I used to be pretty
>>>>> deft with edt on a vt terminal but those days are gone forever. All 
>>>>> the
>>>>> ilom i've worked with works far better using a browser for access. A
>>>>> sort of universal access method for systems. So yes, lack of a browser
>>>>> might be seen as a serious disadvantage.
>>>>
>>>> Web interfaces are very common for admin stuff today.
>>>>
>>>> But usually running the browser on a PC will work fine.
>>>
>>> Right. But if one downloads and uploads files from VMS, then a browser
>>> on VMS allows one to avoid going through a third system.
>>
>> Most VMS systems runs something important and do not have
>> access to download directly from the internet.
> 
> A lot of excuses why a browser should not be included. It's a
> standard tool that everyone takes for granted these days and is
> universal in terms of cross platform operation and compatibility
> 
> just one more thing that would help drag vms into the modern age..

Every desktop OS or tablet OS or phone OS comes with a browser.

But servers today are mostly headless. They reside in
a server room or at a hosting facility or at a cloud provider.
They can be accessed via ssh or browser or some dedicated
fat client GUI. Sure some of them may have a browser installed
and there are some ways to run browser on them and get
the display on a PC, but in those cases there already are
a PC involved that already has a browser.

Arne