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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <qCyHfDnMoEjl at spock.koehler.athome.net>,
	koehler at spock.koehler.athome.net writes:
> In article <6thdpsFb03nbU4 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> 
>> 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. 
> 
>    Which is why we get hit with virii on VMS every day?

Yeah, about as many as 	get on my BSD systems every day.

> 
>    Seriously, heavily trained Windows admins have not been able to protect
>    our Windows systems.  Not if they're plugged in and turned on.

I run a lab of PC's used by students every day.  I have not had a virus
on any of them since we abandoned Win98.  And that has to be by far the
worst environment as I have to leave the machines capable of doing a lot
of things I would never allow on a corporate system.  And starting this
semester they are going to be locked down even more as we are moving from
individual XP systems to running Terminal Services from a Server using
Thin Clients.

You really need to take a step back and look at how silly the comments
made here look to the rest of the industry.  Considering how little
positive marketing VMS gets from HP, thses comments just make it look
even more ridiculous.  I just finished explaining to someone who has
been in this business even longer than I have that VMS even still existed.
Making ridiculous claims certainly doesn't help.  Yes, you see news articles
about Windows failures everyday because it is the only OS the world knows
exists.  For every machine that that fails there are thousands and thousands
that are doing their job just fine.  And that is reality.

bill

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