[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[ChrisQ]

On 08/20/12 21:17, David Froble wrote:

>
> Address the merits of Unix ..

One of the great strengths of unix is that it is a system designed from the
start for programmers to be productive. The terse command and utility 
set may
be a steep learning curve, but save so much time when you are familiar with
them. The overall philosophy of a single tool to do one job, with the 
ability
to trivially pipe the output from one command to another could not be 
simpler
in concept, but has real power to to do serious work.

Now compare that with vms, which has limited functionality as shipped, a
laboured command language, very expensive software dev tools and 
languages and
there's really no argument as to which is the better for software 
development.
VMS is a system designed for mission critical work, with reliability 
stressed
over wide functionality and ease of use.

Both are excellent os's, but different markets and you can't really 
compare them
to to say which is the better in absolute terms...

Regards,

Chris