[Info-vax] HP's Partner Virtualization Program

[John Wallace]

On Aug 15, 6:37 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 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.

Surely it doesn't even need to be modern applications for IPsec? If
I've understood it right, It can be the same old tried tested and
proven applications as folk have been using for ages, but by the
miracle of IPsec, their network traffic is automagically secured
between communicating endpoints with no changes needed to application
code, just a bit of setup and occasional maintenance needed from the
BOFH/system mangler. Correction welcome if I've misunderstood.