[Info-vax] How would you load balance excess webserver traffic between multiple OpenVMS servers?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-01-12, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 1/12/2021 1:18 PM, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
>> so basically you are stating that the "OpenVMS is most secure OS on the planet" sales pitch bellowed by DEC and not so much HP marketing
>> over the years was just an oxymoron?
>
> VMS was probably not the most secure back in the 1980's. But it was
> better than many.
>
> Per 2021 standards it was bad, but many other were even worse.
>
> But applying 2021 standards to software from the 1980's is silly.
>

Unfortunately, that is exactly what VSI are doing when making the
above statement.

> What is important is that other OS'es has improved security a lot
> over the last 20 years, while VMS has seen relative little
> enhancements.
>
> VSI is trying to fix that now. But they cannot catch up
> with 20 years of neglect over night.
>

Perhaps VSI should do this work (and there's a lot of it) before
making the above statement and hence painting a large target on
the backs of the VMS users.

Simon.

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