HP Discontinue OpenVMS

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 10, 2013 @10:01AM from the end-of-the-line dept.

simpz writes "The register is reporting that 'the ancient but trustworthy server operating system' OpenVMS has been discontinued. From the article: 'HP never really promoted its acquisition and OpenVMS suffered from a lack of development compared to HP-UX, itself suffering from competition from Linux. It was only a matter of time, but it's a sad end. Many of its old-time fans, your correspondent included, cherished a hope HP would move it to x86-64 – but since development moved to India in 2009, OpenVMS has been living on borrowed time. Now, it's run out.'"

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enough with this racist bullshit by decora · 2013-06-10 12:38 · Score: -1, Flamebait

when the US was first becoming industrialized by copying the english, im sure we had our own share of problems. watt, joule, ampere - which of these was american? none.
india has a mathematical tradition going back thousands of years. they pioneered the fucking decimal point for chrissakes. i woul dtake a bunch of indian dudes who are ambitious and poor over 20 cum-guzzling american NSA contractors, whose main job is to sit around figuring out which lobbyists will win the next round of contract negotiations so they can decide what kind of buzzword laden horse shit to spoon around all over their whorish, lie-filled resumes.