[Info-vax] Current VMS engineering quality, was: Re: What's VMS up to these

[Bob Koehler]

In article <6fe328db-1f36-425c-8b3e-59e33efaef18 at k6g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>, John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> So, is the lack of proper mandatory locking in UNIX a bug or a
> feature?

   One of the biggest bugs I've ever seen.  Generally worked around by
   paying big bucks for a DBMS when a VMS keyed-indexed file with sharing 
   and mandatory locking would do.

   A good DBMS has lots of other features, too, and if you need those,
   pay for them no matter what the underlying OS.