[Info-vax] VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/14/2021 4:38 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> In the case of web services, clusters get you improved reliability, more
>>> CPU, but most importantly more I/O.  The thing is, few people are using
>>> VMS for web services, and that's a shame because it's something where it
>>> could do well.
>>
>> I find that hard to see.
>>
>> Web services need:
>> * low cost HW
>> * low cost OS & web SW
>> * uptodate web SW
> 
> I agree strongly about that last one, but I am not so sure about the first
> two.  I think that there is still a market for high end web server hardware
> and software, but only if the performance warrants it.  If you can do ten
> times the transaction rate of a machine that costs a tenth of your machines
> cost, you still have a win.

Expensive HW seems to becoming niche in the server market. x86-64 is
taking it all. And the only real threat lurking is ARM.

And regarding OS then a lot of places prefer CentOS/RockyLinux
over RHEL for that type of servers, which to me indicate that
they are very price sensitive.

> Still, I think the move to x86 hardware is a step in the right direction
> both in terms of performance and cost.

Oh yes.

That will be a jump 15 years ahead or so.

Arne