HP Discontinue OpenVMS 238
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.'"
Re:Never hacked? (Score:4, Informative)
VMS was hacked, but it is certainly rare. https://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1989-04.html
Re:When will it be open-sourced? (Score:3, Informative)
I wonder too. Perhaps some of "Open"VMS can be ported into FreeVMS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeVMS
Re:Never hacked? (Score:4, Informative)
Last time I heard VMS had never been hacked. Is that still the case?
It was the best OS I ever worked with. It'd be nice if they open sourced it.
Umm Kevin Mitnick?
http://www.openvms.org/faqs/OpenVMS-Hack-FAQ.html [openvms.org]
Re:Never hacked? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:When will it be open-sourced? (Score:4, Informative)
I've seen VMS source code. It is not pretty stuff.