> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Matthew Stitt
> >
> > I would worry most about the security people at your company. <g>
> >
> > For some reason managers seem to feel the mainframe is a more
> > vulnerable machine for outside access than the other systems in the
> > same room.
>
> Well, you know all those CERT alerts targetting z/OS just
> scare the willies out of mangement. I mean, it's not as if it
> is a reliable Windows server, ya know. (sacrasm in case
> somebody didn't realize it).
But z/OS probably wouldn't be a reliable Windows server, anyway. I'd
bet Windows would still crash even if it was running on z/OS. Probably
more often, since z/OS is a little more "protective" of its underlying
environment than the "normal" Wintel environment is of itself.
-jc-
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