Re: Firewall for VMS / TRU64

From: Bob Ceculski (bob_at_instantwhip.com)
Date: 06/01/03 

Date: 1 Jun 2003 05:56:39 -0700

david20@alpha1.mdx.ac.uk (David Webb) wrote in message news:<bb2csc$66u$1@aquila.mdx.ac.uk>...
>
> Sun seems to do quite well in this market with a "general purpose operating
> system". They have their own Sunscreen firewall package running on Solaris
> not to mention all the checkpoint firewall-1 systems running on Sun Solaris
> boxes.
>
> And of course there are tons and tons of Linux boxes acting as firewalls
> running ipchains or iptables.
>
> David Webb
> VMS and Unix team leader
> CCSS
> Middlesex University

and of course on unix/linux you need to buy security, and even
after trying to buy it, the security model is so weak that you
still get hacked, unlike vms which can run securely without
extra addons ...

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