16 Feb
2018
16 Feb
'18
9:19 p.m.
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 5:45 PM, David Arnold <davida(a)pobox.com> wrote:
is there really still a market for
commercially-licensed installable
software packages? The set of things that cannot be delivered via the web,
and are not available as Free/Open Source is ever-shrinking.
I agree with the later, but for the folks that have traditionally made a
market in the former (think commercial HPC - geo science, mech-e cad,
financial, chemistry, etc..) - they have codes [often in Fortran] and years
and year of data that those codes have been used to create an validate.
Ever-shrinking is right, but those folks have very valuable (billions of
dollars) invested in that data and their businesses behind them. The code
they use is proprietary and closed.
As I said in another message, the test matrix for the folks that develop
that code got unwieldy.
Containers is the only alternative I have seen so far that might solve
this, but .... that same folks don't like no stinking OS between their app
and the HW, so using virtualization technology to solve a problem is
usually a no-no.
Thanks again,
Clem
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