[Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan

[JF Mezei]

Neil Rieck wrote:

> Microsoft" by G. Pascal Zachary I have come to the conclusion that
> someday soon (perhaps 5 years) Windows will be as stable as OpenVMS.
> Why? Because of the influence of the ex-DECies at Microsoft.

Posting such scandalous material on c.o.v. could be hazardous to your
health... Don't be surprised if Mr Vaxman shows up at your door step in
the middle of the night and starts throwing empty Guineess bottles at
you :-) :-)

Remember the "VMS is today where Windows 8 wants to be" ? Well, we are
at Windows 7. So Windows 8 is likely in 2-3 years.

However, I think that Linux is a far likelier candidate to replace VMS.


> Whistler etc. and it shows. Too bad MS stuck with the name "Windows"
> because everyone associates the new stuff with the old stuff.

MS's focus on marketing precludes an image of having a robust high
perfornance kernel. They were given the VMS clustering code, and despite
an apparantly high number of exDECies at MS, they did nothing with it.

If MS just rewrote its lock manager, why didn't they architect it to
support locks across nodes ?

> like that again and it will work. When that happens programmers who
> can only write code for OpenVMS will be put out to pasture.

Cows get fed at the pasture. VMS skills don't generate food.