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

[Tad Winters]

On 5/4/2021 9:53 AM, Bill Gunshannon via Info-vax wrote:
> On 5/4/21 9:25 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <ifcu1jFphjgU1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
>> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 5/4/21 8:11 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> VMS is not Unix or Windows.
>>>>
>>>> This is good because it has functionality that neither of them have.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I was going to let this slide by, but it just stuck in my
>>> craw.
>>>
>>> What "functionality" does VMS have that Unix and Windows don't?
>>>
>>> Remember, we are talking "functionality", not just doing something
>>> in a different manner.
>>
>> Trivially, any Turing machine can emulate another, so they all have the
>> same functionality.  As for usefulness, top of the list for VMS are
>> logical names, clustering, fine-grained security concept, HBVS, and file
>> versions.
>>
>
> All of them exist in some form in Unix except file versions and I have
> never known anyone other than VMS users who saw value in them. Sorry.

Where I work, and they don't have VMS, someone says we're going to
perform a DR test by "virtually" pulling the power on one site.  The
response is, "Wait, the active nodes of the cluster are at that site.  I
need to fail them over to the other side before you pull the power."

"Active?"  The "other side?"  How is that a cluster?  Where's the DR in
that?