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

[Paul Sture]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:46:27 +0000, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

> There used to be free from MS an NFS client and server for NT and NT
> based systems. I am not sure about Vista and later.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/14/windows_8_server/

"Why Windows 8 server is a game-changer

...

Windows 8 includes an NFS stack rewritten from the ground up. It solves a 
lot of the compatibility issues suffered by previous implementations and 
offers massive performance increases. They aren't implementing some 
kludged in-house frankenversion either: Microsoft bit the bullet and paid 
to have it done right."

And I have long moaned about the hostile CLI on Windows. It appears that 
this has been addressed:

"Compared to its precedents, Server 8 was designed backwards; everything 
in Server 8 can be manipulated via APIs and PowerShell scriptlets. GUIs 
are simply ease-of-use layers that offer a visual method of scriptlet 
control.

That means that anyone can build an interface to control any aspect of 
Server 8 from any operating system they wish. If you want to run a fleet 
of Windows 8 servers from Linux, Microsoft is not only happy to help, it 
built components for that."



-- 
Paul Sture