[3991] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: OS/390 and WWW
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shin Katsumata)
Wed Jan 15 19:16:17 1997
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:35:59 +0000 ()
From: Shin Katsumata <skat@flask.com>
To: Arjan Vos <arjan@pino.demon.nl>
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970115010925.2082C-100000@pino.demon.nl>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Just one word,
Intranet
Shin
www.flask.com
On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Arjan Vos wrote:
>
> Just some questions popping into my mind:
>
> IBM is now offering OS/390 with spec1170-complient UNIX intergrated and
> TCP/IP etc. As far I can see IBM's main goal is to offer "open
> computing" to their exisiting clients with (huge) corporate databases
> (formerly) under MVS. Though UNIX is integrated, all security-related
> measures are still being done under RACF or ACF or whatsoever.
>
> But, why would one want their corporate datatabes connected to the Net? It
> is now possible to query DB2 databases, like in UNIX they've been doing
> with Oracle databases since ages :-))
> As far as I can see, one would not want to place corporate databases, or
> high-transactional online systems on the Internet in the first place....
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