5 Nov
2011
5 Nov
'11
9:02 p.m.
On 11/05/2011 11:24 PM, leaknoil wrote:
I would rather be extra paranoid and say, "Please
don't stick that vms 5
box on the corporate network or I will fire your ass" Nothing to do with
the merits of VMS vs anything else. I would say the same if they wanted
to run their SS 20 running SunOS 4.1.4 too. People here get all
defensive and ask me to hack their system to prove it's insecure. That's
not really how it works in the real world.
For what it's worth, I *wouldn't* put it online to the outside world.
Nor would I do it with SunOS 4.1.4, even though I know where most of
its warts are. I just don't think one should automatically assume that
it's going to be full of holes because it's old. That's true of most
UNIX implementations, but generally not so of VMS.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
New Kensington, PA