RE: The Common System Interface: Intel's Future Interconnect

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From: JF Mezei [mailto:jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: August 30, 2007 9:05 PM
To: Info-VAX@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: The Common System Interface: Intel's Future Interconnect

Main, Kerry wrote:
Microsoft still also releases numerous security patches each and
every month. Here is
a recent example:


Until HP decides to release that MONITOR CLUSTER patch, you are in no
position to talk. I'd much rather have patches come out rapidly than
having to live with dysfunctional software that doesn't match what the
SPD promised.


We are talking about *security* patches here. What security problem does the Monitor
problem cause?

and the whopper of them all, the zero-day vulnerability in the DNS
Server's use of RPC.


Can't read beyond "use". But again, DNS isn't exactly your forte, since
the owner of VMS hasn't given any indication of whether its BIND
implementation has the same flaws as BIND on other platforms, flaws
which have been made public and for which patches exist.


Same answer as before - as security issues are discovered (internally or externally),
they are reviewed to determine if it really is a problem and if so, the potential
impact, what the fix requires and how to distribute the patch.

OpenVMS has an excellent reputation in this regard.


Perhpas you might wish to compare VMS with MAC OS classic. (say 8.6).
Not many new patches have been issued for 8.6 in recent years. Must be
a
stable, full features OS without security vulnerabilities.

Or perhaps the idea behind lack of patches is the fact that MAC OS
classic is "mature" and no longer developped and no new patches exist
and very few modern applications still run on it ? Reminds me of VMS.

Don't know MAC's or even follow them.

However, what little I have heard of them is that they seem to have pretty good
security.

Regards


Kerry Main
Senior Consultant
HP Services Canada
Voice: 613-592-4660
Fax: 613-591-4477
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OpenVMS - the secure, multi-site OS that just works.




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