John Lee ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: So what happens when a better OS than Linux is developed?  Or won't there
: ever be one...Linux and NT will always be "the best"?  Don't we know
: without a doubt that a better mousetrap will be invented, and probably
: sooner rather than later?

Those of us who depend on VMS believe it's far superior to Linux and
anything out of Redmond, for its security:

  http://www.pointsecure.com/Defconwhite.pdf
  "Virtually Unhackable" DEFCON9

and its multisite clusters:

  http://www.success-stories.digital.com/css/cgi-bin/cssextusr/s=display/i=30
  Success Stories: Credit Lyonnais
  VMS Clusters' Trial By Fire

Thee have been several reports of multisite clusters which kept running
even though one site in the WTC was destroyed.

Intel runs its fab operations on VMS systems:

  http://www.theinquirer.net/01110105.htm
  Intel's dependent on the Alpha chip
  Uses it to make Itanics

: If indeed HP is giving in to MS (in a roundabout way), then they are no
: longer a leader...they have become a follower.

The first sign may have been the retirement of HP's OpenMAIL product,
a drop-in replacement for MS Exchange Server.

: John Lee
: Vaske Computer Solutions

--Jerry Leslie     (my opinions are strictly my own)

        "OpenVMS is today what Microsoft wants Windows NT v8.0 to be!"
           posted on www.openvms.digital.com on or about Sep 22,1998
                           Quashed on Sep 23,1998
           but saved on ftp://atlas.csd.net/pub/vms100.jpg

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