Re: Suggestions to a Newbie

["Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>]

Marin D. Condic wrote:
>Too bad VMS is fading into the background - withering in the shade cast
>by the various flavors of Unix. (I'm a hard core VMS bigot!) Maybe
>Compaq ought to make the source public and maybe someone could make a
>Linux-like thing out of it?


I seem to remember having read that VMS is getting a second life as a web
server platform. There is a lot of unix hackers around. Running your public web
service on something exotic like a VMS or Macintosh server gives you an added
level of security. Security through obscurity seems to work.

If I had to have a e-commerce server on the net, I would want something obscure
and difficult to hack. To me VMS fits the bill. I would probably want to write
the web server myself (in Ada ofcourse).

I propose the slogan: Annoy the hackers; VMS forever!
Feel free to substitute cracker for hacker.

Greetings,