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Or 2018 if you're brave. For now, we have a boot screen!
Story's a bit dated but being as they're in no rush, I don't see any need for us to be either. So, you lot think we'll ever actually get to play with a VMS box on cheap hardware or is this going to be another DNF situation?
Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/13/openvms_moves_slowly_towards_x86/
Previous coverage:
OpenVMS Not Yet Dead.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @11:57AM (3 children)
If they really wanted to compete, the way to draw vendors back would be to make it an open(ish) platform, get it on as much different hardware as possible, then tout the features that make it rock solid and thus competitive against linux, unix, and windows.
But instead they still keep up the stupid facade that proprietary software that has long since fallen out of relevance is financially valuable as IP.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 20 2017, @04:17PM (2 children)
They renamed VMS to OpenVMS.
(Score: 3, Informative) by tangomargarine on Thursday April 20 2017, @06:37PM (1 child)
It says "open" on the tin but it's not really open source. If you believe what random people on the Internet say:
https://community.hpe.com/t5/General/what-does-it-mean-OpenVMS/td-p/3265043 [hpe.com]
Not quite. POSIX had already been around for several years/releases. The "Open" prefix was added in an effort to state that although "proprietary", VMS was "Open" in the sense it compiled with virtually all recognised standards and would talk to just about anything. POSIX was part of the story, but certainly not the whole reason.
OpenVMS also means you can get the source listings easily for one or two $K. Try doing that with the AS400 and some other OSes; if you as a system admin can get them at all, it won't be easy.
"OpenVMS" means, "come look at me and see how I work." For a proprietary operating system, that is pretty amazing.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Friday April 21 2017, @02:27AM
Easily for one or two $K also mean few people will just download it to explore on a Saturday. And because of that the next step won't come to existence.