[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 8/21/2012 9:59 AM, 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
What would I do with Unicode support?

>> o - no automated patch installation system

I'd rather apply patches manually!  If I don't have the problem a patch 
is supposed to fix, I don't want the patch.  It beats the hell out of
backing out a defective patch.

>> 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 o - woefully out of date ports of things like bash and Apache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 unprivileged users
>
>     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.
>