[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

[Dave Froble]

On 11/16/2023 8:20 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 11/16/2023 8:00 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I would think the capabilities depend on the software
> and not on where it is hosted.
>
> I assume they made two changes at the same time:
> * dedicated physical system -> public cloud
> * application X -> application Y
>
> The loss of capabilities has to be because of the
> second bullet.
>
> If your application had been ported to VMS x86-64 and
> the customers had deployed it in AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI then
> it would have worked as well as always.

I would agree, however, everyone in the company was well over retirement age. 
We offered to help them set up their own shop.  I guess they found it an 
opportunity to switch to WEENDOZE.


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