Submitted by OpenVMS Software Roadmap December 2009
Significant changes:
- OpenVMS V8.4 will be followed by a patch to support the next generation HP Integrity systems after they are available
- OpenVMS V8.4 to be supported on HP VM V4.2
- Storage Futures shows D2D, VLS De-Duplication, SVSP
- TCP/IP V5.7 (due in 2010) will not include IPSEC (it’s not ready) but IPSEC will appear later (it’s in the E8.4 Field test kit if you want to try it)
- CIFS V1.2 due in 2010
- Insight DynamicsVSE Suite of Products-Integrated solution to manage, analyze and optimize physical, virtual resources on Integrity & Blades – 2010
- Availability Manager v3.1-1 on OpenVMS (Alpha and Integrity) – 2010
- RTR 5.2 is available.
- Future releases planned for the compilers
- The OpenVMS Service Support Roadmap shows the versions on long term support (Alpha V6.2, V7.3-2 etc) supported at least through 2012
what i like is this part:
“OpenVMS V8.4 will be followed by a patch to support the next generation HP Integrity systems after they are available”
meaning the new Itanium chips are likely to be released very soon. Even though Itanium in no way shape or form lived up to Intel’s initial hype, its still a good ship (or the next version should be) and it’s the only system in which i can dual bood windows server 2008 R2 and OpenVMS
Good ole’ Itanic.
I swear I’ve been hearing that since it shipped in 2001.
Never really used one though. Systems using them are too expensive to justify purchasing them for my server use cases. I did know a company that had a shady consultant that tried pushing them to buy Itaniums because “they were the only true 64-bit systems” and “only they could access more than 4 gigs of memory”. If they had only been twice the cost of a server with xeons, he might have gotten away with it. The huge price difference made them get a second opinion.
VMS has always been one of those oses I’ve wanted to try but could never find the hardware to run a recent version of it at a reasonable price.
You can always buy an old four ton VAX for $100 at a surplus sale and run an older version of VMS on it. And also use it to heat your house.
You may not be aware that you can purchase hobbyist licenses and media for OpenVMS
http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/mount.html
As well, there is a free emulator available under SIMH
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/vax.html
for the VAX
There is also Charon-VAX. At one time there was a download available, though I can’t find it now.
I also just looked at an online auction site. They’re practically giving away the Vaxstation 4000 these days.