Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack linked to Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities
A new day, a new Microsoft Exchange situation. After months of Microsoft Exchange drama thanks to the Microsoft Exchange Server […]
LegacyOS
‘Staggering’ cost of vintage Sun workstations sees OpenSolaris-fork Illumos drop SPARC support
Dev team doesn’t have necessary hardware, and even if they could afford it eBay is empty OpenSolaris ‘spork’ Illumos has […]
Transfer costs are key to managing legacy risks
In the years since HP’s end-of-life decision for the HP 3000, was it a “worst practice” to be an HP […]
Lifting and Shifting into the Future
Legacy OS operations face an attribute that cuts both ways. Okay, they are senior. Elderly seems to connote a better […]
Where Alpha Intelligence Soared Into
People in the Digital community gush over Alpha. The architecture is the centerpiece of the “We Do RISC Too” movement […]
Older copies deliver newer file tricks for MPE servers
HP added the FTP/iX program to the HP 3000 operating system during the 1990s. As an industry standard, FTP was […]
Biggest box brands keep legacy OS futures in stock
A few weeks ago, a group of OpenVMS managers and developers started sharing notes on the future of OpenVMS. Forrest […]
Virtualization of legacy OS earns approval
VMS Software Inc. is now posting articles on its OpenVMS 9.2 blog. The information outpost is built around the expected […]
VSI updates VMS port, reports first profitable period
VMS Software Inc. (VSI) reports that its fiscal 2020 showed a profit for the first time in the company’s existence. […]
HP’s follow-on for PA-RISC loses Linux support
When Hewlett-Packard canceled its hardware futures for PA-RISC on MPE/iX, the vendor promoted its Itanium systems as a replacement. A […]