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To: Joseph Pareti who wrote (100773)	3/13/2000 10:45:00 AM
From: Mike Morley	Respond to of 186894

RE:VMS You'll see many pieces on the great security model of VMS in Windows 2000. Also, DEC had ported VMS to the Intel 80486 in the late 80's, early 90's. They never released it. Too bad. Mike

To: Joseph Pareti who wrote (100773)	3/13/2000 12:32:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 186894

There is currently no unix in the industry (let alone Windows and Co) coming anywhere near to the vms functionality and robustness. May be M$FT will deliver galaxy-like OS class in W3K... Yes, I'll admit that it's robust but I'll also say that I've had to designed around VMS features and functionality for 15 years. What a joy VMS is. I thouroughly love operating systems that require you to convert files between different binary types to get programs to work. What modern operating system enforces file types on you? That VMS is dying,... well ask Palmer how successful his 10 years tenure was. Don't blame engineers for a piece of work you're too dumb to understand. Ad hominem. I just checked your profile and noticed that you're a Compaq consultant. That would explain the hostility. Using your extensive insider knowledge please tell this idiot Mensan the new customers in this wildly-expanding market to which DEC/Compaq sold VMS 5.x and 6.x so that I'll know that VMS is a vibrant OS in high demand instead of a legacy OS that people continue to use because of the high costs to migrate. Surely if it's so hot you'll be able to throw out a few major names. Any customers migrating away from Unix or Windows into VMS? Any internet or other new economy companies setting up new VMS installations? Has the high demand for VMS generated a Java engine for VMS yet?