[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

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In article <pdn0b5tbfum015s3pdbdpv99lb1e11aras at 4ax.com>, Judge Judy <nospam at shaw.com> writes:
>On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:42:32 GMT, Curtis Rempel
><curtis at no.spam.here.telus.net> wrote:
>
>>Looks like another VMS casualty:
>>
>>http://blogs.computerworld.com/14637/linux_powers_worlds_fastest_stock_exchange
>
>One reason VMS was so secure was it was so useless when it came to the
>Internet.   Apache with Mod Perl is a nightmare.  It has a CGI module,
>that just does not work and does not support threads.  Most Ftp

Apache and Perl are applications; not the OS.


>clients don't recognize VMS.   Even DOS was more powerful when it came

I've never had any FTP issues.  This is, of course, not a VMS issue
either.  It's an issue with the stupid FTP clients that assume, and
wrongly, that all the world is *ix.  They should adhere to the RFCs
and stop the idiocy of parsing the listing format as if *ix are the
only FTP servers on the net.


>to the internet applications than VMS, and was easier to use.  Batch
>files in DOS and shell scripts in Unix are easier to read and write
>than scripts in VMS. 

You are biased because you know shell scripting.  DOS?  On the inter-
net?  I don't think so.  Go back to your Minesweeper.


>Given the way the company has been passed around over the years, I am
>surprised that HP has not pulled the plug on VMS.  IBM pulled the plug
>on OSII, and it was a lot more reliable than Windows. (When a former
>Ford Auto board member becomes the CEO of IBM, then don't expect
>anything visionary to come from IBM). 

Here's the "50 billion flies eating shit means it should be palatable
for all" argument again.


>Good bye VMS!   Good riddance COBOL.

Troll...  

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