[Vms.sig-hu] OpenVMS Pearl - Article in IT Week There's Life in the old Platforms yet - OK for public use (fwd)

[Fodor Zsuzsa]

---------- Továbbított levél ----------
Dátum: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 13:33:51 -0500
Feladó: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Címzett: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Tárgy: OpenVMS Pearl - Article in IT Week There's Life in the old 
Platforms yet - OK for public use

Dear Distribution lists,

>From today's IT week there is a very nice article and I have copied a
portion of it below.

Many thanks to Alex Daniels from Lloyds TSB for sending this along, a
true VMS Champion and I have had the privilege to meet many.

Warm Regards,
Sue


http://www.vnunet.com/comment/1161122
There's life in the old platforms yet
Activities by HP and Novell could halt the decline of NetWare and
OpenVMS platforms
IT Week 09 Feb 2005

...... OpenVMS lay at the heart of the world's first client/server
systems. Much of client/server moved on to Unix, Windows and Linux, 
and
OpenVMS should have died. It didn't because, like NetWare, it was
remarkably good at its job. It is still found running mission-critical
applications in the financial markets, where its reliability and
security has made it all but irreplaceable. This is despite the fact
that, until recently, it has run on hardware that makes the word
"obsolete" an understatement.

But HP's decision to port OpenVMS to its Itanium-based Integrity 
servers
not only gives established users a modern hardware option (while 
cutting
support costs for HP), but opens up the possibility of new customers.

A proven system offering high reliability and great security is an
interesting option for a growing number of firms, particularly as
web-based applications spread, requiring good transaction 
management
capabilities