[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org
Tue Aug 21 13:37:15 EDT 2012


In article <a4jcg9-03k2.ln1 at news1.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:59:26 -0500, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> 
>>    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.
> 

   So roll in a different set of problems, starting with a 1960's
   user interface and kernel design.  Gee, didn't I just cite some of
   those in a different post?

   What I object to is the limited point of view of the OP, whether it
   was pro UNIX, Windows, VMS, MVS, MPE, RSX, RBM, ...




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