Linked by David Adams on Sat 11th Oct 2008 16:38 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
HP has released a roadmap outlining future development of OpenVMS, the operating system that commercialized many features that are now considered standard requirements for any high-end server operating system. (Such as Integrated networking, Symmetrical, asymmetrical, and NUMA multiprocessing, including clustering, distributed file system (Files-11),
Integrated database features, support for multiple computer programming languages, hardware partitioning of multiprocessors, etc). With over 30 years of development, OpenVMS has stood the test of time and has continued to evolve as one of the most secure and trusted mission critical OS's of our time.
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Some would consider me a Mac fanboy and I do love the Mac but I'd take OpenVMS as the underpinnings of Mac OS X any day over Unix and that's not to take anything away from Unix.
I'm am a current sysadmin for 3 OpenVMS servers, nearly 60 Windows servers and just a huge personal fan of the Mac but OpenVMS is awesome. The BASIC compiler for VMS kicked serious butt! The only thing it lacked in my opinion was pointers.
I did all of my programming on OpenVMS using BASIC, Macro (aka assembly language) and yes good old DCL. You haven't lived until you've modified keyed binary files in DCL (grin).
Rock solid, runs forever, never breaks, secure and no headaches... now that's OpenVMS in a nutshell.