[Info-vax] Hobbyist program on The Register

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/12/2024 6:17 AM, mjos_examine wrote:
> On 2024-04-11 8:53 p.m., David Goodwin wrote:
>> how many
>> people really want to have to setup their OpenVMS instances from scratch
>> every year?
> 
> A baseline canned virtual machine for an OS is often how cloud-based 
> Continuous Integration begins each of its passes. Once that baseline VM 
> is running, all the customization, add-ons and unique bits then get 
> applied hands-free by scripts, often laid out by a yml file, or similar 
> mechanism.
> 
> If commodity provisioning of OpenVMS instances in the cloud ever becomes 
> a reality, the way it has for other platforms, that provisioning would 
> likely work much the same way.

True.

But the VMS world is very far from IaaC. It is far from a given that
VMS will ever get there (the small size of the VMS market makes the
business case for advanced and expensive tooling difficult). And even if
it does happen then it will take many years.

Arne