Ten summers later, OpenMPE’s memory shimmers
June of 2021 marks the ten-year anniversary of the last hurrah from OpenMPE. The advocacy group that soared up around […]
Legacy storage gets remote service
The parts of a legacy IT shop most likely to fail are the moving parts. Old servers usually run off […]
RegCast highlights Azure hosting for legacy apps
The tech website The Register has explored a new resource for legacy hosting: Microsoft’s Azure cloud. A RegCast event included […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
AWS Cloud stands up as legacy rehosting platform
Legacy OS managers have heard the drumbeat of cloud computing promise for many years. There’s growing evidence as well as […]