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Archive for the ‘VMS’ Category
Going Green with CHARON-VAX
Sunday, July 27th, 2008Hello from VMS Bootcamp!
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008A big part of the Bootcamp is “VMS Magic”. Anyone can come up and give a story about anything related to VMS. The best story wins a prize — the first-place winner this year showed how he booted VMS on a palmtop computer.
But this post is about Ron Kaledas of CareTech Solutions. He works in a typical environment — VMS, Linux, Windows. At every opportunity, he pointed out the benefits of OpenVMS. His cluster had been up for 5 years continuously without interruption.
Clustered VMS systems can be upgraded one at a time in a “rolling reboot” without affecting the cluster as a whole. Hard to believe that this technology has been available for over 20 years, and still isn’t available on any other platform.
Anyway, his part of the data center was scheduled for a complete shutdown to upgrade the un-interruptible power supply (UPS). But he wanted to keep his cluster alive through the shutdown.
So, he downloaded PersonalAlpha, a free version of the CHARON-Alpha emulator. He loaded it on a laptop, installed VMS, joined the cluster, and shut down all the other nodes.
After an hour or so, the power was restored, and he started the other systems back up. He then had his laptop exit the cluster without impacting any users.
His uptime? 5+ years and counting!
VMS Bootcamp is Coming!
Monday, April 21st, 2008Want a meeting that’s 100% VMS? The OpenVMS Advanced Technical Bootcamp is for you!
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/symposium/may_2008/agenda.html
This will be the last one held in Nashua, NH, the current home of VMS Engineering. VMS Engineering is moving to Marlboro, MA. Next year’s location is TBD (to be determined).
DevDisasters: Jurassic Programmers
Thursday, March 6th, 2008Here’s a true tale of trying to turn a functional VMS financial application into a “cool” .NET application:
http://reddevnews.com/devscope/print.aspx?editorialsid=935
(written by Alex Papadimoulis in Redmond Developer News)
I don’t know where the author got his example, but I have a friend with an identical story. His story is has a follow-on — they’ve lost so many customers by pushing “version 2″ that they will declare bankruptcy soon.
As for DIBOL, the language in the article, it is fully maintained, and now cross-platform. If only the rock stars had known…
Get a free VMS sweater
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Enter the contest for old instance of VMS here:
http://www.hp.com/go/celebrate30
If you have the oldest, you’ll win a free HP Integrity rx2660 server. All entries will get a 30th anniversary sweater.
Hurry, the offer expires January 15, 2008.
Why did HP make this USA only? Maybe they’re trying to save on shipping… 
Text Messages? You’re using VMS!
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007HP has posted this neat video. Look for Acision under Telecommunications,
HP *does* celebrate VMS
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Take a look at HP’s main page (http://www.hp.com). It mentions VMS!
I’ve keep a screen scrape here, just in case…
OpenVMS at 30
Friday, October 26th, 2007Well, it happened! VMS made it to 30 years yesterday. The HP site now has a video from Mark Hurd, the guest book comments (with some hilarious stories), and a list of VMS “firsts”. Well worth checking out:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/30th/index.html
Again, Happy Birthday!
OpenVMS at 30
Friday, August 10th, 2007This logo is starting to appear on HP emails.
To contribute your own VMS story, go to:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/fb_30years.html
BTW — the official announcement of VAX and VMS was October 25, 1977.
Skype Prime — VAX, VMS, and OpenVMS Consulting
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007Quayle Consulting is now available instantly via Skype Prime.
VAX, VMS, and OpenVMS Consulting
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