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[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/7/22 13:57, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
> 
> The problem with that is that VMS isn't easy to manage by current
> standards although it certainly was by the standards of 25 years ago.
> 

Simon, I pretty much agreed with what you said except for this one part.

25 years ago I managed Window, Unix and VMS.  Had a nice VAX Cluster and
about 100 users. VMS was by far the hardest to manage. I could do Unix
and even windows with no documentation provided by the vendor.  VMS was
impossible without The Grey Wall.  And, if you had documentation but
found it inadequate there was a wealth of third party documentation
available.   lot of it free.  What was there for VMS?  The Grey Wall.

I had management tools for Windows and Unix like CFengine.  For VMS,
I had The Grey Wall.  Do I really need to go on?  Heck, still had
RSTS running in those days and even it was easier to manage than VMS.

And, the worst part of it is that nothing has changed other than more
and maybe better tools and documentation for Windows and Unix.

bill