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From: ST402248@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Scott Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DEC (was Re: A3000UX competition
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Date: 16 Dec 90 20:15:13 GMT
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>Didn't DEC recently announce that they won't be supporting VMS anymore and
>are concentrating solely on Ultrix?  ("no support"=="no upgrades")
>
>--
>Eric Giguere                                       giguere@csg.UWaterloo.CA
>           Quoth the raven: "Eat my shorts!" --- Poe & Groening

Complete and total BullSh*t.  This is complete misinformation. Dec is currently
shipping VMS V5.4 and V5.5 has already been spec'd.  I'm not advocating VMS
even though I'm very used to it and use it most of the time, but the vast
majority of VAX's currently run VMS and DEC is still upgrading and adding
major features such as new networking protocols, security features, data
integrity(volume shadowing, etc...).  DEC still has a lot of really
talented people adding state of the art features to VMS, and it
certainly doesn't lag behind UNIX in its implementation of new
technology.  Religious preferences in operating systems aside, there
is nothing technologically outdated (compared to UNIX) in VMS.

                        -- Scott (ST402248@Brownvm.brown.edu)