Legacy computing can weather recession
Gartner Worldwide predicts a stop in IT spending of 8 percent this year to $3.4 trillion. This year’s trigger, of […]
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VSI to unveil new plans for x86 OpenVMS, support projects
A pair of webinars is opening the gates to news and updates on the 2020 operations at VMS Software Inc. […]
Hobbyist licenses extend decades of devotion
At the DECUS Symposium in Cincinnati in 1997, Digital’s OpenVMS Hobbyist Program arose. It’s a long-running hit. By the mid-2000s, […]
HP moves enterprise support, seeks buyouts
Bob Chase, a former engineer for HP’s enterprise support team, reports that the entire HP Enterprise Server Support Team “working […]
This just in: COBOL is not dead
On the most antique Saturday Night Live shows, Chevy Chase reads fake news. With each broadcast he’d repeat this joke: […]
PARSEC curates Tru64 open source tools
The PARSEC Group has curated a set of open source tools for Tru64. It’s a set of software that the […]
Moving PDF to text on VMS requires super tools
OpenVMS sometimes sticks around long enough to need a fresh set of talons to grab its data. That’s what Wesley […]
VMS open source work drives into summer months
The small band of OpenVMS devotees meets this Thursday June 18 to swap notes on open source work for the […]
SPARCstation 10 pushed Solaris onto desktops
Twenty-eight years ago this month, the first SPARC-based desktop computers were delivering multiprocessing for Solaris and SunOS. The month of […]
Open source, private tools move 3000 text to PDF
HP 3000s still contribute data in corporate environments. A Sanface Software solution, text2pdf, creates PDF files out of HP 3000 […]