[Info-vax] Uptime for OpenVMS

[MG]

On 17-5-2011 23:33, ChrisQ wrote:
> 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.

Complex, I like that one!


> 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.

What about WoW64?  (Whenever a virus doesn't rely on having to be able
to specifically tap into one or more 64-bit processes.)


> 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.

Maybe they should have realized the advantage of having something run
on something besides x86, back when they were still selling Windows for
IA-64; or even before, with Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, even CLIPPER, etc.
versions of NT.

  - MG