[Info-vax] One wonders why people bet their companies on Microsoft based products...

[P. Sture]

In article <00cded62$0$29091$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

> BillPedersen wrote:
> 
> > The loss of data on the T-Mobile Sidekick network is due to a "massive
> > server failure".  Servers run by Microsoft/Danger. I do believe that a
> > server environment running OpenVMS is much less likely to have a
> > "massive server failure" than one based on MS products. 
> 
> Statitics may be produced to show the above to be true. HOWEVER, it does
> not mean this is the real cause.
> 
> A shop choosing VMS over MS hype might have more maturity and better
> experience at setting up reliable servers. It isn't really because VMS
> is better, it could be because it has more experienced staff and is
> willing to spend more to ensure it has the pre-requisite hardware to do
> backups etc etc.
> 
> I suspect that the Windows servers that have been setup and being
> maintained by former VMS experts are probably far more reliable and
> secure than Windows servers setup by Windows weenies too young to know
> what VMS or a VAX is.

Well this VMS user (i.e. me) was the first person I knew to get ntbackup 
working when NT 4.0 was first available.  Well, er, actually I was the 
first person I knew who bothered to invest in a tape drive for a 
home/small business NT system...

It saved me countless hours when others were reinstalling from scratch.

-- 
Paul Sture