Archives 

Show All

  • 2010
  • 2009
    • December
      • LDAP on #OpenVMS - Two Webinars - 16 December 2009
        12/08/09
        As a continuation of the education and communications initiative by the Office of OpenVMS Programs there are a pair of webinars being held next week, Wednesday 16 December 2009. The early webinar is at 3:30 AM EST and the later webinar is at 10:30 AM EST.

        Topic :- LDAP Authentication on

      • Spreading the word about #OpenVMS with RSS feeds
        12/07/09
        More and more our our content regarding OpenVMS is becoming available in syndicated format using RSS. This will allow you and others to easily place ongoing content and discussions on your web sites to make it easy for your customers and clients to check on what is happening in the many different s

      • Introduction to T4 and Friends - A Pair of #OpenVMS Technical Webinars
        12/01/09
        The HP Office of OpenVMS Programs is presenting a pair of technical webinars on 2 December 2009.

        The Office of OpenVMS Programs has a large amount of information they want to deliver to you and they have so few occasions to meet you! Hence this new initiative to do webinars on OpenVMS te

    • November
      • Why Choose #OpenVMS? Why SELL OpenVMS?
        11/04/09
        In a well crafted article on OpenVMS.org Bob Gezelter puts forth some excellent arguments for choosing OpenVMS as a development and delivery platform over other, currently popular environments. He presents the issues of stability, cost of ownership - especially operation, and seamless expandability

      • Getting into the schools EARLY... It could be #OpenVMS!!!
        11/01/09
        I ran across this article while investigating a group mentioned on the HP Connect web site by Kees denHartigh - Kids On Computers. Well, Kids On Computers is currently working with a school in Mexico and has plans to help expand the exposure of students world wide to computers. They happen to be u

    • October
      • More Listed Open Source on #OpenVMS Ports at OpenVMS.org
        10/11/09
        In the last month or so since we started the discussions about Open Source on OpenVMS there have been an increase of listed Open Source ports on the OpenVMS.org website. THANK YOU! Yes, thank you to all who have been listening and reading for taking the time to post information about known ports.

      • Open Source on OpenVMS - A Progress Report
        10/05/09
        In the last few weeks I have been discussing the needs and requirements to revitalize the Open Source on OpenVMS Community. Along these lines I have been involved in discussions on various forums including: comp.os.vms, vms-sig-listserv, LinkedIn.com, my own VMSblog as well as Twitter and Facebook.

    • September
      • Priority Number One - Develop Focus for #OpenVMS Open Source Team(s)
        09/20/09
        Seems like the need now is to get those interested in Open Source development and support on OpenVMS to have a point of focus and community. This is probably as difficult as any task within the effort to develop momentum within the OpenVMS community and is typical of all segments within the our com

    • August
      • Integration of VMSblog with Twitter for #OpenVMS Evangelism
        08/23/09
        Yes, that's right, now the Subject lines will be automatically posted to Twitter. And will see how we can move this into other portions of our effort to get more buzz and discussion going about OpenVMS.

        As mentioned in my last blog I experimented with writing the blog from an Ipaq. Whil

      • Blogging from an Ipaq
        08/21/09
        Well,it is not a VT420 or WordPress off astandard kb but it is possible to access this blog from an Ipaq and do useful work. Have recently loaded MiniMo for WinCE, Firefox''s abandoned little brother. What an improvement over MS IE!!!

        Now I am not saying I would do this all the time I wan

    • July
      • Open Source for OpenVMS
        07/15/09
        In a recent series of posts Stephen Hoffman of HoffmanLabs noted that the current state of Open Source product for the OpenVMS environment is both in a disarray and is seriously lagging the rest of the industry. Hoff equates this current state of affairs as a train wreck or at least a train wreck i

      • A Call for Participation - OpenVMS Community needs to rally
        07/08/09
        Just after the middle of June I started a discussion on LinkedIn.com on the following topic:

        How do we expand OpenVMS to new environments? How do we attract companies to use OpenVMS? How would you get more young people interested in this environment rather than Windows and *nix?

    • June
      • Expanding the OpenVMS marketplace
        06/28/09
        I started a discussion on LinkedIn.com recently where I asked others to explore how we could break down the barriers of adoption of VMS as an application platform. Some of the comments have been enlightening.

        There has been the belief that VMS is in maintenance mode. This is far from th

      • The Virtual System Manager
        06/19/09
        Over the last few months I have been engaged in support activities for new customers on VMS in areas remote from my offices here in the Southeast. These have been clients new to VMS but very familiar with their own business. They have needed a some specific help in various areas of VMS with which

      • Welcome to the VMSblog sponsored by CCSS - Computer Consulting System Services
        06/11/09
        We are starting this blog to keep you informed of our efforts to push OpenVMS forward and out of the stagnant position it is in both within Hewlett Packard (HP) as well as in the world of IT in general.

        The cry is NOT "VMS is dead, LONG LIVE VMS!" But more appropriately, LONG LI