[Vms.sig-hu] OpenVMS Pearl - HP and the Politecnico di Torino - May be distributed as public information (fwd)

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Dátum: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:45:13 -0400
Feladó: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Címzett: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Tárgy: OpenVMS Pearl - HP and the Politecnico di Torino - May be 
distributed as public information

Dear Folks,

Many thanks to OpenVMS Ambassador Massimo Belloni (Italy) for 
submitting
this excellent article as an OpenVMS Pearl.

Warm Regards,
Sue
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Hewlett-Packard and the Politecnico di Torino - The OpenVMS I-64 Open
Source Porting Program at the starting blocks

HP recently started a new initiative called "OpenVMS I-64 Open Source
Porting Program". Promoted by the HP Corporate Engineering, it 
provides
Itanium hardware to educational institutions that include the porting of
Open Source packages to OpenVMS in their classes. Several universities
have been involved in the program, among them the Italian Politecnico 
di
Torino, which is the first one to fully implement this new initiative.

The program has been started by HP on the basis of the renewed 
customer
interest for the OpenVMS operating system, an industry leader solutions
providing high stability, reliability, clustering, industry standard
features and low TCO, very appreciated in e-business applications. The
next release of OpenVMS for Integrity Servers, well amalgamated in the
HP Adaptive Enterprise concept, is already generating a strong interest.
This initiative will provide customers with further applications, tools
and suites coming from the open source world to the OpenVMS 
platform.

The "OpenVMS I-64 Open Source Porting Program" is very appreciated 
by
Professor Marco Mezzalama, pro-rettore (vice-chancellor) of the
Politecnico di Torino (http://www.polito.it/index.en.html). As part of
the initiative, four systems have been assigned to the Turin athenaeum
(two RX2600 Itanium servers and two Alpha XP1000 workstations) with 
the
current last release of OpenVMS installed, together with tools and
compilers. The RX2600s run OpenVMS V8.1, today's Itanium developers
release. The students will be able to perform the open source porting
with support directly provided by HP's Corporate Engineering, thus
living the experience of working with HP's development laboratories,
supported directly by Corporate OpenVMS Engineering  and locally by
OpenVMS Ambassadors from C&I. Very few universities can offer such 
an
experience to their students, and this will help them to an even better
preparation for their future in the computer industry, with particular
reference to the OpenVMS platform.