VMS News and Articles

Quayle Consulting

• This response on LinkedIn was selected as the "Best Answer".
  
• Datamation
• The New York Times
  

Movies

• Best Practices: Migration Planning for Alpha Server Users (by Gartner) March 2009
  
• Acision uses HP OpenVMS to help deliver more than half of the world's text & multimedia messages &
  serve three quarters of all videomail users.
• See how Deutsche Börse, the largest financial exchange organization in the world, uses HP OpenVMS to keep their
  electronic markets up and running.
• The Australian Securities Exchange relies on HP OpenVMS to deliver products and services that play
  a major role in the economy down under.
• HP blows up a data center to prove disaster tolerance. VMS recovers first, in less than 14 seconds. Here's how it was done.
• DisasterProof behind the scenes
  

Whitepapers

• Fraport AG Quadrupled Throughput of Baggage Transportation Control System
  
• CHARON-VAX Performance Benchmarks
  
• QEI Provides Active/Active SCADA with OpenVMS
  
• Customer Migrates to OpenVMS after Virus Incident (VISTA Control Systems site)
  
• HP World 2003 presentation 2166
• Multiple CHARON-VAX instances on Alpha/OpenVMS
  
• Oracle's support announcement for Oracle RDB on CHARON-VAX
• How to create a SCSI multi-host VAX cluster
• HP OpenVMS brochure
• OpenVMS and High Availability
• The Hewlett-Packard OpenVMS web site
• CHARON-VAX Application Notes (Stromasys site)
• CHARON-VAX: An Amazing VAX Emulator (Process Software site)
• Achieving the highest levels of IT security with HP OpenVMS
• The HP OpenVMS Approach to High Availability Computing
• The OpenVMS section of "The Operating Systems Handbook" (dated, but VMS is still VMS)
  

Articles

• Old Operating Systems Don't Die
  
• "We have the biggest CD and DVD collection in the world. Many people travel great distances to
  shop here for recordings they cannot find anywhere else. With our Integrity-based OpenVMS
  environment, we are giving exceptional service to our customers, increasing sales and
  consolidating our outstanding position on the market." Rainer Schulte, IT manager, Saturn
  Electrohandels GmbH, Cologne, Germany 
• Windows to OpenVMS Integrity Migration for mission critical SCADA environment
  
• RIP OpenVMS?
  
• Porting Opensource to OpenVMS
  
• Australian Securities Exchange
  
• VMS is 30 years old ("Created by DEC, now sold as HP's OpenVMS, it's used by the Deutsche Borse in Germany, the Australian Stock Exchange, and Amazon")
  
• Military & Aerospace Electronics
  
• Digital’s venerable VMS just keeps going and going and going....
• Mention of Quayle Consulting in Datamation
• A ComputerWorld article on VAX replacement
• Another ComputerWorld article about VMS
• The 20th anniversary celebration of VMS at the HP web site
• The 25th anniversary celebration of VMS at the HP web site
• The 30th anniversary celebration of VMS at the HP web site
  
• Neil Rieck's Mini-FAQ about VMS.
• Is OpenVMS Vulnerable?
• Old VMS Databases Never Die
• A Historical Look at the VAX: The Economics of Microprocessors
• My Desktop OS: OpenVMS with CDE (Humor)
• Hoffman Labs

Other Links

• GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks - Tips on the business and practice of software and website development: website design and promotion, marketing, object oriented design, law, business, and cross-platform development.

Services

• VAX migration and replacement using virtualization technology
• Alpha migration and replacement using virtualization technology
• Software design, development and maintenance,including porting to Alpha and Itanium OpenVMS
• PDP-11 migation and replacement using virtualization technology
• System Administration for platforms including VMS and Linux
• Data Conversion to open formats
• Software Development
• Network design and support

Other items of interest:

• The company blog
• Details on hooking up equipment, including MMJ connectors
• Sales and technical support for the DOS Buttons product, which has flown on the Space Shuttle
• News and whitepapers about Quayle Consulting and VMS

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