Bruce Tong wrote:
>
> > > If the USAF is adopting Windows NT, then we might as well start the party
> > > now. From my experience, when the USAF adopts "new" technology, that
> > > technology tends to die in the rest of the world.
> >
> > Uh...that means, at some time in the past, the USAF adopted Unix as "new"
> > technology...so...
>
> Well I can't argue with that logic, and it even occurred to me when I was
> writing my little rant. I was clearly more emotional yesterday than I
> should have been.
>
> >From what I saw in the USAF, which is a big organization so I could never
> have seen it all, Unix was not widespread - at least no compared to DEC,
> IBM, and Unisys. I recall an strong belief that Unix was inherintly not
> secure. I remember a highly placed person saying "look at the Internet -
> it's proof Unix isn't secure." Anyways, that's the impressions I had when
> I left the service.
>
> Bruce Tong
> Systems Programmer
> Electronic Vision / FITNE
>
Having done work for the Air Force I find the first two messages to have
been more accurate, even with the emotion attached. The Air Force never
finishes a product right or on time, yet promotions come as a result of
what anyone in the commercial sector would deem a failure. In my
experience with the Air Force, in some of its most "advanced" stuff, I
have found that they have mostly Cybers and VMS running. I have never
noticed on a large scale that the Air Force has ever accepted Unix.
Orange Book security is largely a joke. No OS that is current is ever
really certified. By the time the certification process is done the OS
has passed in its usefulness. There are several MLS OS's that have
applied for Orange Book B1 and I think only five have ever made it.
Paul Anderson
Agape Information Systems
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