[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Paul Sture]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:59:26 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article <succg9-03k2.ln1 at news1.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
> <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>> 
>> A large problem is that for a long time VMS hasn't been getting new
>> features that are now standard on other operating systems.
>> 
>> Off the top of my head, shortcomings posted recently here in
>> comp.os.vms:
>> 
>> o - no Unicode support o - no automated patch installation system o -
>> no IPsec o - limited LDAP, connectivity to Active Directory etc o -
>> woefully out of date ports of things like bash and Apache o - PRODUCT
>> INSTALL and related stuff could do with a major rethink
> 
>    o - No patch of the month
>    o - No blue screens of death
>    o - No broken word processors
>    o - No word processors full of security holes
>    o - No privileged, buggy, installs by unpriviledged users

Oi!  We were talking about *nix, not Windows.

>    But Apple is now larger than Microsoft was.  Which proves the
>    business case for quality software is not full of holes.  You can
>    write better software, charge more for it, and make money.

Agreed.  OS X of course has always included compiler tools, an IDE and 
the *nix goodies underneath, and it's your choice whether you use them or 
not (I have a feeling the latest version of XCode costs, but it's a 
nominal amount, not hundreds of bucks).

Interestingly, Objective-C has just risen to number 3 on  someone's list 
of most popular programming languages:

http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

-- 
Paul Sture