[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Richard Maher]

"Bob Koehler" <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote in message 
news:NS41A2BWXAN5 at eisner.encompasserve.org...
> 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 o - woefully out of date ports of things like bash and Apache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 priviledged, buggy, installs by unpriviledged 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.
>

Apple is a hardware company