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I am entering data and running queries on a MUMPS system right now, over SSH running OpenVMS 8.4. Last application software update: 1999. I suspect we would ke
by killjoywashere 9y ago
I am entering data and running queries on a MUMPS system right now, over SSH running OpenVMS 8.4. Last application software update: 1999.
I suspect we would keep using it, except, last I heard, HP off-shored their OpenVMS maintanance to India and declared, in like 2011, that it would be EOL'd in 2017.
edit: I retract the statement that it's running on a PDP-11, though I have to say I was told that in teleconference just last month. I remember because it was shocking.
- xeeeeeeeeeeenu 9y ago1. OpenVMS doesn't run on PDP-11. The only platforms it has ever supported are VAX, Alpha and Itanium. 2. OpenVMS is alive and well. It wasn't outsourced to India and it does not have EOL date. Currently it's being developed by VSI (https://www.vmssoftware.com/ https://www.vmssoftware.com/) and they're porting it to x86.
- killjoywashere 9y agoperhaps I misrepresented "MPS w/o SE: Mature Product Support without Sustaining Engineering" http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/openvms_supportchart.html http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/openvms_supportchart.html
- xeeeeeeeeeeenu 9y agoThis date applies only to OpenVMS 8.4. New releases are planned, for example, 8.5 will be released this year. See the current roadmap: https://www.vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VSI_Roadmap_20171215.pdf https://www.vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VSI_Roadmap_20171215.pdf