An Interview With Mark Gorham Of OpenVMS

Ken Farmer writes "There's already been one press interview with Mark Gorham, but that encounter with HP's VP of the OpenVMS Systems Division omitted some technical details that warrant further attention. Hence, SKHPC thought it appropriate to go on a deep dive with one experienced in OpenVMS and SCUBA diving as well."

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Re:New VMS users?

[VAXcat]

Reliability, scalability, uptime, high performance wide area clustering, no viruses, very few security problems of any kind (and those occur mostly in code migrated from unixland). A few of the reasons people choose VMS for an operating system. Individual VMS systems often have multi year uptimes (even in heavily used environments). VMS clusters have uptimes even longer still. And that's leaving out any of the religious flavored arguments about what OS is easier to administer and use.