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

[Michael Kraemer]

Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:

> Unix seems to be in wide use whatever WE think!  I doubt that that will 
> change unless several major disasters are proven to be the fault of one 
> or more Unix or Unix-Like operating systems.

Yep.
Unlike VMS, which seems to be sort of a religion,
Unix[oid]s are a family of pragmatic OS's for pragmatic people who need
their job to be done.

> We don't hear of very many disasters caused by Unix and probably won't!

Indeed.
Whatever theoretical disaster scenarios people may come up here,
in practice I've seen more disasters with VMS than with Unix[oid]s.
In particular, if one also looks at non-technical issues,
i.e. two badly handled hardware migrations plus two changes of ownership
in less than a decade.