[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[Main, Kerry]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On
> Behalf Of Bill Gunshannon
> Sent: January 18, 2009 2:22 PM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS
> 

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> > One of my favourites:
> > http://www.vista-control.com/itanium_success.htm
> > Los Alamos, February 15th. 2007 After implementing mission-critical
> systems
> > on Windows-based computers for many years, a customer experienced a
> virus in
> > one of these systems that shut down production for two days while the
> > infected systems were diagnosed, restored and tested. The impact was
> that
> > plant production was severely impacted at no small cost. Despite
> internal
> > opposition because of the established standard, Vsystem on HP Itanium
> servers
> > running OpenVMS was chosen for the next system to be replaced."
> 
> How many tmes you going to trot out this same tired story.  Getting hit
> with
> a virus is not as much a OS or system problem as it is a user problem.
> It
> is often exacerbated by the fact that the peopel setting up the Windows
> system are incompetent but then, an incompetent sysadmin would be just
> as
> disastrous to VMS.
> 
> bill
> 
> --

And how many times are you going to keep saying it is never the fault
of a bad architecture with so many virus, trojan and worm security 
patches released each and every month that it is almost impossible to 
keep up with, but rather its always the dumb old sysadmin that it is 
at fault?

Geeze .. give it a break. 

Sysadmins have other duties besides keeping up with the patches of 
the month, and informing the QA/App groups which critical apps need 
to be retested.


Regards

Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
HP Services Canada
Voice: 613-254-8911
Fax: 613-591-4477
kerryDOTmainAThpDOTcom
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OpenVMS - the secure, multi-site OS that just works.