Re: The Register: OpenVMS among most-secure of operating systems

From: Wayne Sewell (wayne_at_tachysoft.com)
Date: 01/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:57:15 -0600

>From: icerq4a@spray.se (David Svensson)
>X-Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
>Subject: Re: The Register: OpenVMS among most-secure of operating systems

>Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy <Andrew_No.Harrison_No@nospamn.sun.com> wrote in message news:<bu12iq$qi9$1@new-usenet.uk.sun.com>...
>> Bob Koehler wrote:
>> > In article <bu0i0q$kn8$1@new-usenet.uk.sun.com>, Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy <Andrew_No.Harrison_No@nospamn.sun.com> writes:
>> >
>> >
>> >>Care to speculate on how different the OpenVMS distribution is
>> >>now to the VAX distribution in the 80's in terms of code, functionality
>> >>etc etc.
>> >
>> >
>> > Better. Larger. More secure.
>> >
>> > No, I'm not guessing.
>> >
>> Ohhh yessssss yooou are.
>>
>
>Is this a serious Sun employee ?
>
>Give some bad taste of Sun actually, of an otherwise great company.
>
>Shame that my good view of Sun is darkened by this embarrasing person.
>

That pretty well sums it up for me. In general, I don't care about sun one way
or the other. But I have a low opinion of them for allowing/encouraging this
harassment. Most of us are here to get information on how to use vms, not to
hear a competitor's views on perceived deficiencies.

Wayne
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