From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9333969071d4358 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" Subject: Re: Suggestions to a Newbie Date: 2000/08/18 Message-ID: <8nk09h$srp4@news.kvaerner.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 659830104 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8ngv4j$ko9$1@news01.cit.cornell.edu> <399C4A87.F0A16B8C@acm.org> <399D472D.540CBAA@acm.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2120.0 Organization: Kvaerner Group IT Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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,