[Info-vax] Patching, was: Re: VSI strategy for OpenVMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 9/16/21 8:07 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-09-15, <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yep, one of the challenges Windows admins (and to a bit lesser extent,
>> Linux) have is just the sheer volume of monthly patches (security and
>> functionality).
>>
>> This is not OS religion - simply reality.
>>
> 
> How many patches per month would VMS see if it was probed with the same
> level of intensity that other operating systems are probed with and if
> it had the same wide range of software that those other operating systems
> have ?
> 
> Simon.
> 

How many of the Linux patches are actually for applications and not
the OS itself?  How many applications are there for VMS?

bill