Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] job

[Chris Wolfe <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Chris Wolfe wrote:
>
> > Sounds like you've got more of a personnel than a technical issue.  
> > VMS has had SSH for several years now, and if your IT people haven't 
> > tried converting their users over to it (or haven't upgraded the OS in 
> > ages), they're asking to get cracked.  Maybe they already are and 
> > don't know it.  Complain to the IT managers.
>
>
> Believe me, Chris, I've done quite a lot of complaining.

Sorry to hear that the IT group isn't taking it seriously, hope they 
come around soon.  We switched our users over to SSH on our VMS servers 
around a year ago, but we still have to leave telnet open for some 
applications... *sigh*

> > VMS is definitely old and proprietary and could maybe be considered 
> > niche, but is hardly obsolete.
>
>
> It depends on what you mean by "obsolete."  Compare it to Linux in terms 
> of available software programs.  Yes, it's a problem for me that VMS 
> doesn't run anything I want to run.
>
> I actually had someone from HP tell me quite arrogantly, "If you want R 
> to run on OpenVMS, why don't you just port R to OpenVMS yourself?"  And 
> quit my day job?  I don't think so.
>
> Mike

I fully understand and agree.  Why would anyone devote time and skillz 
for something that has only a very small share of the market.  I feel 
lucky that HP includes a "freeware" CD of contributed software with 
their installation set.  Most of that though is out-of-date now anyway 
or not ported to Itanium VMS. =D

--Chris

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