Re: Firewall for VMS / TRU64

From: Bob Ceculski (bob_at_instantwhip.com)
Date: 06/10/03


Date: 9 Jun 2003 17:39:31 -0700

Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy <Andrew_No.Harrison_No@nospamn.sun.com> wrote in message news:<bc28go$1er$1@new-usenet.uk.sun.com>...
> Bob Ceculski wrote:
>
> > so why do you run unix land software on your vms box?
> > and so now we all here go from stating that "VMS is the
> > most secure os on the planet" to "VMS is a piece of #%$&
> > and you can't even run it as a webserver or ftp server
> > or it will get hacked to pieces"! So that means you
> > can't put a VMS box running say apache on the internet,
> > lock it down, and put a simple firewall in front for
> > dos attacks? Well then bring back rsts/e ...
>
> No one has said that OpenVMS is a piece of
> crap.
>
> A number of people have said that you don't
> on the evidence of this thread have a clue
> what you are talking about.
>
> Don't confuse the two, you arn't an operating
> system as far as I know and just because your
> points about OpenVMS are demonstrably untrue
> doesn't mean the OS is demonstrably crap.
>
> Regards
> Andrew Harrison

I know exactly what I am talking about ... it is others
on this board who obviously don't ... and of course I
think you know what you are talking about but since you
work for a competitor who has nothing but crap to sell,
your job is to try to discredit the opposition ... but
that makes you many a time sound stupid unfortunately
when you have to lie to keep sales ... you might be
better off Andrew joining the VMS sales team, that is
if they would let you actually sell it ... and I still
challenge you to hack out of an ftp captive account ...



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