Hewlett-Packard’s decision to license OpenVMS source code to a new engineering firm is getting mostly positive reaction. One year ago, HP put OpenVMS on an end-of-life path by announcing that it would ...

Oracle did the right thing this week when it pledged to resume porting its software to Hewlett-Packard’s Itanium-based servers, but it should never have pulled that support from a critical platform as ...

OpenVMS was supposed to have died a slow and unheralded death sometime during the 1990s. Labeled passe by analysts and “legacy” by Windows and Unix enthusiasts in the wake of the distributed computing ...