[Info-vax] Time to turn DECUServe into a mixed VMScluster?

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2023-05-31 kl. 14:17, skrev Simon Clubley:
> On 2023-05-31, MG <em_geeNO at SPAMxs4all.nl> wrote:
>> As an almost daily user of the EISNER:: node of DECUServe,
>> I began to wonder: Couldn't DECUServe serve as a cost-
>> effective method for VSI to demonstrate both OpenVMS for
>> x86-64 and its cross-architecture clustering capabilities
>> to a wider audience?  Since VSI operates this physical
>> hardware and adding a modestly configured x86-64 virtual
>> machine would probably not add too much to the existing
>> operating and maintenance costs of DECUServe.
>>
>> It could thereby also save a lot of potentially interested
>> users the time and effort of having to apply for a suitable
>> evaluation license and having to prepare, install and
>> configure a (virtual) system, especially those who are
>> entirely new and unfamiliar to OpenVMS and simply wish to
>> have an end-user experience.
>>
>> It's been long since a capable public access VMScluster
>> system has been available (especially since "Deathrow"
>> shut down, already quite some years ago).
>>
>> I realize that I could have posted this in the DEC Notes
>> of EISNER, but it doesn't appear to be very actively used
>> these days.
>>
> 
> I suspect that a lot more people read Notes than post to it,
> so I suspect your message would have been read by a lot more people
> than it would first appear.
> 
> BTW, I also suspect there are a lot more people _reading_ comp.os.vms
> than posting to it.

Even better would probably be to use the offical VSI forum.
https://forum.vmssoftware.com/

That is where the future is and where VSI replies.