I apologize for any comment that seems to slant VMS. When I say “seems to” that is precisely what I mean. You will never catch me railing on Legacy systems. Never. Hell, I’d still have a Honeywell DPS8 running GCOS with TPS here if I could and I’m not joking. I see you are a new reader. I welcome you. And I also see that you didn’t go and check the referenced article yet. When you do, you’ll find that the “mess” I’m talking about is the very, very difficult task of migrating a very complex Oracle7 database from a non-Unix system to Linux running Oracle10g. That huge technology step is the mess. Read more of my blog and you’ll get a feel for what I stand for. Better yet, read my “About” section at the top of the blog.

OpenVMS is owned by HP, and is an actively maintained platform for Oracle, although releases have been somewhat delayed (thanks to HP rushing the alpha processor retirement, mostly). The operating system itself has just had a major release V8.3 for alpha and itanium platforms, and has up-to-date features, including one of the best behaved SAN implementations I’ve had the pleasure to work with. The HP integrity/itanium platform is certainly very competitive for certain workloads. Among other platforms, I manage VMSclusters supporting thousands of users using very modern kit, so it’s kind of a hot button for me to see copy like this.

That aside, I just discovered your site, and it’s got lots of great info, keep up the good work.

-Tom O’Toole

Cheers

Tim…