[Info-vax] The real problem that needs solving to grow VMS

abrsvc dansabrservices at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 14 15:02:01 EST 2022


On Wednesday, December 14, 2022 at 2:10:17 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-12-14, Dave Froble <da... at tsoft-inc.com> wrote: 
> > On 12/14/2022 1:51 PM, Simon Clubley wrote: 
> >> On 2022-12-14, Dave Froble <da... at tsoft-inc.com> wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> Bottom line, some of us like VMS. The question is, why do you attempt to talk 
> >>> us out of it? 
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> He's not talking you out of it. He's pointing out things that people who 
> >> are not emotionally attached to VMS are going to base their decisions on. 
> > 
> > And you really believe that Linux is perfect, has no down sides, has no issues? 
> >
> Nothing is perfect, including VMS or Linux. 
> 
> However, Linux is a _lot_ better suited to today's world than VMS 
> currently is.
> Simon. 
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.
Given that I am aware of a number of customer sites that were hit with security issues with NO issues at all with the OpenVMS systems, I would disagree.  At these same sites, ALL Windows systems were compromised and some of the Linux based ones were too.  Only the OpenVMS systems escaped unscathed.

Dan



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