[Info-vax] Should Oracle buy OpenVMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <HUszy8ubx3Sx at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <75cdvmF183osjU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> 
>> So, you have BSD, Linux and Solaris all run on the same hardware.
>> All run the same applications.  What is the one diferentiator?
> 
>    Every teenager I know knows how to put Linux on an x86.

And? Installing BSD is not any harder.  And, if there was the interest
(by the developer, not among the users) it would take little effort
to make an installer as easy as something like Ubuntu for FreebSD.
After all, under the hood there really is little difference at that
level.  

> 
>    Yes, I'm sure there are some teenagers out there who don't.
 
Which doesn't stop them from claiming to to be IT Professionals.  :-)

bill

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