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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Some legacy iron is hard to give away
Vendors like Digital and Hewlett-Packard built systems like tanks. High priced, sometimes over-specified, but durable. A recent interchange on the […]
How VMS can perform multifactor authentications
Sometimes the IT kingpins at a VMS-using company sharpen their knives. The need to prune away legacy systems rises anew, […]
Releasing old technology into the wild
In a new year, plans are being made at legacy computing sites for a different year. Some of the smartest […]
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. […]