Legacy support becomes self-support
MPE sites are feeling a transition pinch approaching in 2021. The operating system is 364 weeks away from losing full […]
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New OS, old compiler: never a great mix
OpenVMS fans are debating the merits of putting a legendary legacy compiler onto the newest version of the operating system. […]
Legacy issues enter open source realms
Legacy system customers always face the prospect of changing tomorrows. In the 1990s the MPE customers kept looking over their […]
Solaris gains new features in support update
Oracle recently announced that the Solaris operating system is getting Support Repository Update (SRU) 27 for Oracle Solaris 11.4. It […]
Legacy support demands support for vendors in future
The term progressive rose up in the early decades of the 20th Century, when it signified something that envisioned a […]
Legacy shows the way to move in COVID times
Earlier this month, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it’s moving its world headquarters from California to Texas. While HPE will shuffle […]
Python snakes its way onto legacy systems
VMS Software Inc. (VSI) delivers news this week that a 3.8.2 release of the all-purpose utility language is now a […]
ERP stalwart folds legacy application into SAP
Legacy computing carries on for decades after a system vendor loses interest. At one ERP site, though, the end of […]
Keeping legacy secure relies on classic resources
Earlier this year, Yahoo agreed to pay out $116 million for security breaches. The hacks happened over a three year […]
The Untimely Demise Of Workstations
Last month’s news that IBM would do a Hewlett-Packard and divide into two—an IT consultancy and a buzzword compliance unit—marks […]