[Asterisk-Users] Linux and Windows

[Benjamin on Asterisk Mailing Lists]

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:42:10 -0500, Jason Becker
<jason at coalescentsystems.ca> wrote:
> You know, OpenVMS administrators would probably wet their pants laughing
>   at the rhetoric coming from the Linux zealots among us.
> 
> http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/erp/article.php/3380341

In a former life I used to be one of those VMS heads and it always
puzzles me how MSFT managed to so utterly and completely botch their
VMS reengineering project (the making of Windoze NT).

MSFT got their hands on the dream team from DEC including VMS' chief
architect, Dave Cutler. MSFT also had all the resources and plenty of
cash. So, how on earth is it possible to come up with a VMS clone
that's so utterly the opposite of everything VMS stands for?

One might be inclined to think MSFT would have done much better to
outsource the job to the Russians after the fall of the iron curtain.
During the cold war, they used to clone just about everything DEC did.
All those missiles we were so worried about pointing at us, they were
all engineered on Russian and Eastern German cloned VAXes and
disassembled then rebuild and localised Russian VMS system software.

Heck, if McDonalds or the Heinz Ketchup company had got their hands on
the VMS dream team and chief architect, I'm sure they would have come
up with a decent clone that would have preserved the reliability,
stability, security and consistency of VMS at least to some degree.

So, what on earth happened at MSFT that they botched this so
baaaaadly. It's puzzling.

rgds
benjk

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