[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Dave Froble]

On 11/16/2023 12:47 AM, 56d.1152 wrote:
> On 11/15/23 9:43 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:06:00 -0500
>> Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/15/2023 2:44 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>
>>>>     I don't know about McDonald's but these days a lot of really big
>>>> systems run as a large (and variable) number of micro-services in
>>>> containers under Kubernetes. Scalability is the watchword today.
>>>> Sometimes they run on Z/OS machines (usually running Linux) otherwise
>>>> they run on a mix of blade servers (CPU and RAM tightly packed) and SAN
>>>> storage (lots of NVMe SSDs) connected with 40Gb or 100Gb ethernet.
>>>> Infrastructure as a service they call it.
>>>
>>> Most run such workloads in AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI.
>>
>>     Of course, these environments are built for that purpose and allow
>> the systems developers to assume the Kubernetes infrastructure without
>> having to maintain it. But it is possible to run such workloads in a
>> private data centre - "TrueNAS Scale" is one fairly easy way.
>
>
>   Sorry, but McDonalds Corporate, BOA, US Mil, etc ... they
>   are NOT gonna work on Docker or Kubernetes on a bunch of
>   tablets. IBM didn't pay big for RHEL to run it on laptops,
>   but on its mainframes ......
>
>   Decentralized usually = SLOW ... and INSECURE ... despite
>   claims.

Yeah ...

Our former clients moved to "cloud solutions".  They learned rather quickly that 
they would not have their prior capabilities.  Not sure just how much business 
they can now handle, and, it's taking much more manpower.  "But, it's what 
everyone else does."  Really?

Not that we gave them much of a choice.  Either take over our software, which 
was offered, or find another solution.  They didn't want to be in the software 
business.  Not sure what anyone would call all the human labor is to support 
their "cloud solution".

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