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HP gives OpenVMS new life
2014-07-31 20:37:48| InfoWorld: Top News
Hewlett-Packard has changed its direction on OpenVMS. Instead of pushing its users off the system, it has licensed OpenVMS to a new firm that plans to develop ports to the latest Itanium chips and is promising eventual support for x86 processors.
HP to end support for OpenVMS
2013-06-12 13:47:05| InfoWorld: Top News
Hewlett-Packard looks to end support for OpenVMS, a system long valued for its reliability and break-through features, in 2020. There's an entire generation of people who were born, graduated college and are well into their IT careers, who may have no idea that this OS, introduced in October 1977 by Digital Equipment Corp., even exists. That alone puts a limit on the operating system's life expectancy.
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