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OpenVMS taken out back, single gunshot heard

Linked by znby on Mon 10th Jun 2013 23:15 UTC

"HP has announced the end of support for OpenVMS, the ancient but trustworthy server operating system whose creator went on to build Windows NT. OpenVMS started out as VAX/VMS on Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX minicomputers, then later was ported to DEC's fast Alpha RISC chips �" before the Compaq acquisition of Digital led to their untimely demise. HP ported the software to the Itanium, but HP isn't going to bother moving to the last generation of IA64 and support will finally end in 2015." The article seems to have confused the end of support of VMS (which projected to happen some time after December 2020) with the end of IA64 sales for machines that support VMS and/or the end of support of the Alpha version of the operating system, but it seems either way that the venerable operating system is on its way to meeting the same fate as MPE.

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RE[2]: Very sad.

by moondevil on Tue 11th Jun 2013 12:22 UTC in reply to "RE: Very sad."

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2005-07-08

This is what happens when you race to the bottom and the only concern is price.

We are seeing this happening in Android ecosystem as well.

And it will happen in any cheap enough OS that gets picked up bye OEM to work as commodity for hardware.

Sadly very few seem willing to invest on OS R&D.

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RE[3]: Very sad.

by tidux on Tue 11th Jun 2013 15:21 in reply to "RE[2]: Very sad."

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2011-08-13

Linux exists, and it's hard to compete with free. That's pretty much dooming commercial Unix.

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RE[4]: Very sad.

by mkowalik on Tue 11th Jun 2013 15:31 in reply to "RE[3]: Very sad."

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2012-08-06

VMS ain't UNIX

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RE[3]: Very sad.

by tylerdurden on Tue 11th Jun 2013 16:58 in reply to "RE[2]: Very sad."

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2009-03-17

computing technology is a commodity now, and that is a very good thing.

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RE[3]: Very sad.

by Yoko_T on Tue 11th Jun 2013 19:02 in reply to "RE[2]: Very sad."

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2011-08-18

Why bother when what all the "reaseach" seems to produce is stinking garbage like Gnome3,Unity, Windows8, and the various Apple Crapple products?

Edited 2013-06-11 19:03 UTC

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