[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[chris]

On 09/14/21 13:39, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/14/2021 8:25 AM, chris wrote:

>> 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

Sorry, but that requires another machine and makes the assumption
that vms will never be asked to access and manage other systems,
typically using a browser. If it's going to cut it in the 20B0's,
it needs as much capability and range to tools as possible.
Being set against provision of a browser is just the sort of
dinosaur thinking that has cast vms into a  minority interest for
decades. It may have been brilliant decades ago, but is totally
outclassed these days, and will need real effort to make any
headway at all without most of the capability of it's competitors.

An inconvenient truth ?, yes, but true none the less...

Chris