[Info-vax] Security, support and VMS, was: Re: A new VMS?

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <s6pk8f$9pl$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> Whether or not the folks care, it is commonplace to encounter old 
> versions both internally, and publicly-exposed.
> 
> Yes, there are OpenVMS servers that are actively maintained. And 
> OpenVMS servers that are not actively mantained.

Of course, there was a time when hobbyists had free access to patches.  
Back then, I applied patches relatively quickly after they came out.  
That option is now no longer available.  And, yes, hobbyists were early 
adopters of patches and sometimes found problems making those happy who 
didn't want to install them yet.

> As of today, I see 223 publicly-visible OpenVMS Apache servers, many 
> (most?) of which are down-revision.
> 
> That's out of 1112 publicly-visible OpenVMS servers.

You mean 223 run Apache, and the rest don't?

1112 in the world?

> There are 56 OpenVMS servers running SMTP. 

In the world?  Client or server?