In case you missed it.  OpenVMS was once again promoted to the
investing community.

http://beta.fool.com/seasonedgeek/2012/02/05/has-hp-become-turkey-vulture/1654/

On Feb 16, 2:42=A0pm, seasoned_geek <rol...@logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
> In case you missed it. =A0OpenVMS was once again promoted to the
> investing community.
>
> http://beta.fool.com/seasonedgeek/2012/02/05/has-hp-become-turkey-vul...

It has been a number of years since I heard anything from "Motley
Fool"

:-)

Anyway, here are a couple of things I noticed:

1) Download something from the OpenVMS area at HP (like OpenSSL). You
are asked to fill out a questionnaire "and" tell them which OS level
you are sitting at. Then you notice that "OpenVMS-8.4" isn't on any of
the drop-down menus? (8.4 came out in 2010 so this fubar has been
around for almost two years)

2) IIRC, OpenVMS-1.0 first appeared in 1987. That would make 2013 the
35th anniversary. There doesn't appear to be any mention of this
anniversary on the HP website (a small amount of advertising there
would cost them almost nothing). If I were HP, I would have started
celebrations on Jan-1 making it a whole year affair.

3) I've tripped over some dead links on secondary VMS web pages (one
click from the primary). I've reported some of these to the web master
and always get an automated reply but the links never get fixed.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/OpenVMS.html

On Feb 19, 7:39=A0am, Neil Rieck <n.ri...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
 2) IIRC, OpenVMS-1.0 first appeared in 1987. That would make 2013 the
> 35th anniversary. There doesn't appear to be any mention of this
> anniversary on the HP website (a small amount of advertising there
> would cost them almost nothing). If I were HP, I would have started
> celebrations on Jan-1 making it a whole year affair.
>

1977.  And they just finished off a reasonable 30 year celebration
less than five years ago, so I'm not sure celebrating at five-year
increments is justifiable.

FrankS wrote:

> 1977.  And they just finished off a reasonable 30 year celebration
> less than five years ago, so I'm not sure celebrating at five-year
> increments is justifiable.



Reasonable ?  Its anniversary was mentioned after the fact. Woudn't call
it a "celebration".  And I suspect that had we not complained about the
lack of celebration, HP wouldn't have mentioned it on its web site at all.

In article <f1ff06ca-ce24-4629-a241-984258a7e081@z31g2000vbt.googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck@sympatico.ca> writes:

> 2) IIRC, OpenVMS-1.0 first appeared in 1987. That would make 2013 the
> 35th anniversary.

   That sounds like the just before the start of port to Alpha.  But your 
   arithmatic, or your typing, is lacking.  In addition first release of 
   the Alpha port was in 1992.

   Or did you mean first release of VAX-11/VMS on the 11/780?  That would 
   be 1977.

   Changing the name to OpenVMS was an embarrassment that VMS now has to
   live with.  Completing the port to Alpha is worth celebrating.

   The initial release of VAX-11/VMS is very much worth celebrating.
   35 years this October (2012).

First Customer Ship of VAX/VMS Version 1.0 was around February 1978, if IRC.

Announce of VAX-11/780 and VAX/VMS was at the shareholders' meeting in October 1977 and first display at DECUS in San Diego was the same timeframe.