[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/10/2022 9:51 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> But, that said, I miss commercial grade operating systems that are
> database-centric with the filesystem and database being integrated.  I
> think that is a good approach for commercial applications, what we once
> called "ADP."  Perhaps the future isn't VMS but I would like to see some
> of the concepts within VMS integrated into future commercial systems.

How would "database-centric with the filesystem and database being
integrated" look in real life?

Like VMS index-sequential files (and its equivalence in the mainframe
world)?

Putting a file system on top of a RDBMS? (like Oracle and MS
experimented with 20 years ago)

Or?

> As software becomes more and more expensive, I think the need to have an
> efficient operating system that provides database features in the kernel
> becomes more important.

Database in the actual OS kernel or just database shipping with the
OS distribution?

It is not uncommon to put application functionality in the
kernel today, but I am not keen on the idea.

Arne