[Info-vax] Happy new Year !

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 03-01-2010 19:57, Richard Maher wrote:
>>                     VMS has a place and I maintain a very profitable
>> place in the OS market and with cloud-computing gaining traction then a
>> reliable, disaster-tolerant OS may be just what some are after?
> 
> The cloud concept is based on applications/application servers
> providing high reliability on OS/hardware that is not reliable.
> 
> Arne
> 

ISTR a fairly recent incident in which someone lost all of his 
"contacts" somewhere in the cloud.  He didn't have a local backup so *poof*!

We old timers are sufficiently paranoid that we would not even consider 
trusting our data in the hands of a third party service that had no backup!