[Info-vax] Where is VMS used for new projects?

[MG]

On 16-2-2011 17:09, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Do you actually believe this lame excuse?
> Isn't VMS allegedly "unhackable", so it wouldn't
> make a difference whether the public knows or not?

Forgive me, excuse me for the possible grief I may have caused you, but 
I was under the impression that this is the VMS usenet/newsgroup?  It 
surely wasn't my intention to offend you or otherwise upset you in any 
way.  I'll try to be more sensitive in the future.

I regret to have to tell you that I'm unaware of uttering any "lame 
excuses," I was merely thinking of a possible reason why we relatively 
hear so little about VMS in this day and age.

As for the allegation, that VMS is "unhackable."  Wasn't that proclaimed 
by the folks at the DEFCON conference at the time?  You're free to 
disprove them.  The excellent "Deathrow" OpenVMS cluster invites you to 
test the security.  They're running V7.3-1.


> In that case, how do you know they run VMS?

To reverse this question:  How do you know they don't?  (If one isn't 
told, which was my point.)


> I'm sure they have more sensible reasons than that,
> price, availability of software, future prospects etc.

It was a literal quote, so please don't kill the messenger.  I can point 
you to the original article, if you'd like me to?  (It's in Dutch, but 
maybe you can run it through Google Translate.)


> Dream on. What's out the door never comes back.

Weren't there quite a few companies in the 1990s that switched to 
Windows NT briefly then switched back to UNIX/-derivatives?  (Perhaps 
also the case for VMS.)


> Migrations always have problems. And how do you know the Dutch railways'
> problems come from the "wrong" OS?

Whenever there are problems, as announced on the radio (for example), it 
are almost always "system malfunctions."


  - MG