[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[ChrisQ]

MG wrote:

> 
> Do you perform and/or provide typical VMS tasks and services on your
> Windows system?  (E.g. as a server.)  Because that's what I thought
> what he meant.
> 
>  - MG

I don't use windows for server applications, but have worked with many
companies that do and seem to have few problems, other than the shear
complexity of it all. It would be far more expensive to run it here and
I don't have much (nil ?) windows server sysadmin knowledge. Being much
more familiar with unix, it's easier on the sysadmin workload to use that.

I don't run Intel machines for servers since it's a major security
loophole in terms of virus execution. Have mentioned this elsewhere and
been criticised for it, but if the server doesn't talk intel, the virus
can't run. Nearly all the problems with windows server that I have seen
in companies in the past few years have been virus related. One in
particular cost a company over 2 weeks disruption. A strong firewall,
in depth sysadmin knowledge and disciplined user awareness is the only
thing that can beat this sort of thing, but hard to enforce in a creative
development environment.

I used Tru64 for the server for many years, but now back to Sparc / Solaris
and like Tru64, it just works...

Regards,

Chris