OpenVMS Links, Articles, and Whitepapers

Success Stories

• WorkflowOne Goes Green and Saves Green With Charon-VAX
• Midwest Microwave
• Renesas Reduces Risk and Improves Performance with Charon-SSP
• Charon-VAX Aids Aurora Aircraft for Canadian Department of National Defence
• Charon-VAX: A Customer's Experience
• Fraport AG Quadrupled Throughput of Baggage Transportation Control System
• QEI Provides Active/Active SCADA with OpenVMS

Useful Links

• A huge collection of open-source software
• License requirements for OpenVMS
• OpenVMS Resource Center from Process Software
• OpenVMS Support from VMS Software Inc.
• OpenVMS and Database Support from Software Concepts International
• OpenVMS support from Parsec

Documents from Quayle Consulting

• Replacing VAXen with VAX Emulation
• Virtual Backup Options in Charon Products



Documents from Stromasys

• Stromasys supports its products on VMware



Documents from HP, DEC, and Compaq

HP celebrates 30 years of OpenVMS!



• OpenVMS today: Going beyond technology"
• The HP OpenVMS Approach to High Availability Computing
• HP OpenVMS — Still exceeding expectations
• Achieving the highest levels of IT security with HP OpenVMS
• The HP OpenVMS Approach to High Availability Computing
• Charon-VAX Performance Benchmarks
• OpenVMS Galaxy



How-To

• Porting Open Source to OpenVMS
• How to create a SCSI multi-host VAX cluster
• Best Practices: Migration Planning for Alpha Server Users (paywall content)



Disaster-Proof

• Building a disaster-proof data center with HP OpenVMS
• DisasterProof: HP blows up a data center OpenVMS recovers first, in 13.7 seconds!
• DisasterProof: Here's how it was done.
• DisasterProof Documentary: Behind the scenes



Articles

• Oracle: Charon-VAX in Rdb Engineering
• Oracle: Charon-VAX and RDB performance
• OpenVMS: When Continuous Availability Really Matters
• OpenVMS Support: Guide to Best Practices" from Network Appliance, Inc
• The VAX and OpenVMS: looking back, looking ahead
• OpenVMS: When Continuous Availability Really Matters
• Excavating Data From Ancient Disks
• One Protocol to Rule Them All? — Maybe Not
• Old Operating Systems Don't Die
• RIP OpenVMS?
• A Historical Look at the VAX: The Economics of Microprocessors



Books

These are mostly links to Amazon, but may be available from other booksellers.
• The Minimum You Need to Know to be an OpenVMS Application Developer (a must-have)
• Writing Real Programs in DCL, Second Edition (a must-have)
• OpenVMS System Management Guide 2nd Edition (not great, but still a must-have)
• The OpenVMS User's Guide
• OpenVMS Operating System Concepts, Second Edition
• Linux and OpenVMS Interoperability: Tricks for Old Dogs, New Dogs and Hot Dogs with Open Systems
• The Operating Systems Handbook: Unix, OpenVMS, OS/400, VM, and MVS
• OpenVMS Performance Management
• Getting Started with OpenVMS System Management



Humor

OpenVMS Undocumented Features from Parsec. Thanks!

Remember Y2K? You'll get a chuckle out of this article on reddit. Old code never dies...

There's another Y2K-like event happening in 2038. You can read an article in Wikipedia, or see a countdown timer. If you survive January, your GPS may croak in November.