[Info-vax] I guess VMS can't lose?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <nJ48uWgiNnyT at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <mailman.34.1289187239.15866.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>, "Main, Kerry" <Kerry.Main at hp.com> writes:
>> 
>> How do you check which servers get which security patches when in most=20
>> of these environments, the admins do not even know what is running on=20
>> these servers. They have so many VM's sprouting that the VM sprawl=20
>> they have today is actually worse than the x86 sprawl they had before.
> 
>    By hiring people and making it thier full time job.  Glad I never
>    got into that.  If I had a full time job applying security patches
>    to VMS, I could get in lots of time fishing!
> 
>    But ever shop I work with does have a cast of full time people who's
>    jobs it is to turn the crank on the patch machine.

And yet, with nary a VMS machine in sight I manage to maintain several
dozen servers running various flavors of other OSes all by myself.
Go figure.  Tell me again who it is with their fingers in their ears?

bill
 

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