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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/14/2022 3:02 PM, abrsvc wrote:
> 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:
>>> 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.
 >
> 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.
I am sure that is a relative common scenario.

But it also seems very likely that this is more due to the
fact the the bad guys had no clue about VMS than the
security features of VMS.

The average script kiddies does not know about VMS. The
typical cyber criminal does not want to spend time on VMS -
it is so much more rewarding to go after server OS'es with
millions of servers. But then there are those that are
specifically targeting one server and does not care about
cost - likely "state actors" - that is where the
"security from being small and unknown" no longer works.

Arne