Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] job

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Rick wrote:

> VMS is still very useful for the right tasks... =)

I can see some value in it.  Certainly, it is a good operating system, but 
I think the proprietary nature of it and the fact that it required certain 
hardware probably killed it.  We still use it here, but it isn't because I 
want it that way, it's because old people have been using it since they 
were young people.  Eventually those old people will retire or die and 
there will be more reason than ever to convert to Linux.

My main complaint about VMS is that there is not much software available 
for it.  Our IT people brag about how secure it is and they FUD some of 
our faculty into avoiding Linux for security reasons.  But -- they allow 
ordinary FTP and Telnet from any client.  How secure is that?  Why do they 
do that?  They don't have the secure protocols installed on the VMS 
machine -- no SSH.  That's because VMS is old and obsolete.

Mike

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