[Info-vax] HP's Partner Virtualization Program

[JF Mezei]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> In twenty years as a system manager, VMS and several flavors of Unix, I 
> NEVER used, or even encountered, IPSEC!  We've all gotten along without 
> it somehow.  I never missed it!  Why has it suddenly become a sine qua non?

Twenty years ago, did you ever think you could be watching HD movies on
your home computer ?

Did you ever think you could be purchasing underwear on the internet ?

Technologies evolve. New technologies emerge and start to become
adopted. If you want VMS to live in the past, then fine, you don't need
IPsec. you don't even need X windows, IP, because you only need decnet
and VT220 terminals, and plenty of serial ports with 1 10mbps coax ethernet.

When an operating system stops adopting new technologies, it dies
because it truly becomes a legacy system that can't run modern
applications that use those new technologies.