US Army buying Macs

Another opportunity for VMS. HP, ARE YOU LISTENING??

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RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Sunday 30 December 2007 Volume 24 : Issue 93

Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:21:05 +0100
From: Peter Houppermans <peter@houppermans.com>
Subject: Army to use Macs to prevent hacking

"[..] the military is quietly working to integrate Macintosh computers into
its systems to make them harder to hack. That's because fewer attacks have
been designed to infiltrate Mac computers, and adding more Macs to the
military's computer mix makes it tougher to destabilize a group of military
computers with a single attack [..]"
[url]http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2007/12/20/apple-army-hackers-tech-security-[/url]
cx_ag_1221army.html
[url]http://preview.tinyurl.com/29xelf[/url]

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Stanley F. Quayle wrote:[color=blue]
> Another opportunity for VMS. HP, ARE YOU LISTENING??[/color]

Why would HP see this as an opportunity for VMS ?

For HP, new opportunies are routed to the HP-UX , Linux or Wintel
departments.

Besides, when even the VMS group has convinced itself that VMS shouldn't
be used for small and desktop systems and that it is only good for large
back-room servers, why would HP even consider VMS for opportunities that
need "desktop to data centre" ?????

Just accept it. It is pointless to try to battle HP and change the mids
of the people such as Stallards and Livermore who undoubtedly have large
influence on Hurd.

Stanley F. Quayle wrote:
[color=blue]
> Another opportunity for VMS. HP, ARE YOU LISTENING??[/color]

The question shouldn't be "are you listening?" but rather "why AREN'T you
listening".

I've never gotten an answer to that; I no longer expect one.

I used to use VMS. Many years ago. MANY years ago. I have many fond
memories of using VMS and still think it was one of the best, most capable
& reliable OS's out there. But Digital (it was still DEC back then) had no
interest in selling VMS, HP shows even less interest in selling VMS, which
means that my VMS knowledge & skills have a much smaller market, which
means that I've gone elsewhere. Yes, it's kind of a chicken-and-egg
problem, but DEC/HP is the one who sold the eggs and killed the chicken.

HP: By dropping VMS you didn't 'win' my business to another platform - you
lost my business to another provider.


Sigh....


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