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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2021-05-04 kl. 19:18, skrev Stephen Hoffman:
> On 2021-05-04 17:08:51 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
> 
>> There are many things which people see no value in because they have 
>> never experienced them.  Of all the things I listed, this one is 
>> obviously of tremendous value.
> 
> There are many things that people have never experienced, or features that 
> a platform lacks, and thus the folks continue using problematic or 
> inadequate or higher-effort solutions, yes.
> 
> I see little value in logical names, and little value in file versions. Not 
> as compared with competing solutions. Though on OpenVMS, that's what we're 
> stuck with.

Not "stuck with". Having them in our tool-box, and good tools. Logical
names are very useful and file versions very convienient.

> 
> The logical name key-value store could be—for instance—replaced with LDAP.

What a complete piece of BS. Replacing a logical lookup, that is more
or less with no overhead at all, with a LDAP call? Come on...

I know you are always trying hard to find points to bash VMS,
but this one becomes just silly.