[Info-vax] Kernel Transplantation (was: Re: New CEO of VMS Software)

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-01-09, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 14:32:48 -0500, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>
>> And again, what you are interested here in has been available for many
>> years via Sector 7.
>
> I?m not sure they did a comprehensive enough job. For instance, I remember 
> the previous time this came up, reading between the lines in one of their 
> case studies, the original customer scenario mentioned using DECnet, but 
> that was missiong from the description of the solution.

DECnet should not be in use in today's security world and a customer
should have been forced away from using DECnet anyway due to external
auditing and security standards.

I do remember what Sector 7 offers as being very complete (within the
limits of moving to another OS) and I don't see how reinventing the
wheel would be a viable commercial option, given what Sector 7 already has.

Simon.

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