[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Scott Dorsey]

chris  <chris-nospam at tridac.net> 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.

Right, but who sits in front of a server these days anyway?  You sit in
front of a workstation, maybe one halfway across the country from the
server, and that workstation is running a browser.  What you need on the
server isn't a browser, but a webserver, and tools to allow remote 
administration via web.

>As for built in frame buffer support, they are often very low end
>hardware devices and none i've seen have been good or fast enough
>for X windows use. Important to know what's being promised in that 
>respect...

These days, most cheap video cards in VGA mode are enough for basic
X11 use.  It would not be difficult to get a basic DECWindows server
working under x86 VMS.  What would be difficult is getting all the other
millions of applications that people want.  Even so, it's probably not
worth the effort for something that so few people will ever want to use.
--scott
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