[Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan

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In article <196d2b8d-8959-492c-aa47-2b03c5f16e68 at s31g2000yqs.googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
>On Jan 10, 12:55=A0am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> 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 :-) :-)
>
>Oh well, maybe I can convince him that we should share a few bottles
>then trow the empties at HP management. They are to blame for the
>current situation.

I don't have any empty Guinness bottles as I do not drink bottled Guinness.


>> However, I think that Linux is a far likelier candidate to replace VMS.
>
>Maybe. Linux developers have created some unique things (like the
>built in software firewall which came out of the Honeypot Project
>which MS stole for Windows-XP SP2). Solaris is pretty cool but, like
>OpenVMS, development has slowed to a crawl. At least these OSs run on
>x86-64 and AMD64.

I'll go with the Linux.


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