[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2024 15:25:59 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 1/6/2024 3:11 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> So you see, on the Unix side, the vendors never thought to charge any
>> different for the “workstation” versus “server” software, because it
>> was the exact same software, with the exact same capabilities.
> 
> Commercial Unix was usually sold as systems - a bundle of HW and OS.
> 
> Making the distinction irrelevant.

Let me repeat the point: if you wanted server-type functionality, you 
didn’t need to specifically buy a server box. You could do it with one of 
their workstations.

This was true of all the Unix vendors, it was not true of Windows NT.

> Most commercial Linux distros have both a server version and a
> desktop version. Including Redhat, SUSE and Ubuntu.

That’s purely a difference of packaging, not functionality. For example, 
if I run “desktop” Fedora, SUSE or Ubuntu, I am not limited in the number 
of network shares, or the number of concurrent users, or what server 
packages I can install (such as Samba, Kerberos, BIND, Apache, Nginx, 
LDAP, MariaDB, PostgresQL, mail MTAs, NNTP servers, virtualization/
containerization, whatever). It’s all the same.