Tag: OpenVMS

At VMS Software, it is our mission to protect the value that our customers have built into their applications on OpenVMS over decades. These applications are bespoke masterpieces written to cater just to a specific company and use case, they are ingrained in their culture and operations, and still functioning from thirty years ago, still running - let's face it - a large portion of the modern world. With OpenVMS now running on x86 and in the cloud, it is entirely possible for most of our customers to keep their valuable applications on this legendary platform.

It was great to be back in Malmö after several years away and to catch up with old friends and colleagues at the recent European Bootcamp. Having lived in Malmö for close on 3 years from 2017 to 2020, it was surprisingly nostalgic to be back there, and it was fun to be able to visit some of my favourite old haunts (dragging others along with me), and to see what had changed in the time since I had been away. As with the Boston event last October, the Malmö Bootcamp was without question a success, being well-attended by an enthusiastic audience full of good ideas and questions and packed with great talks by some excellent speakers.

Like many other companies, IT or otherwise, we go through an annual exercise of reviewing our risk assessments. You know the drill: list your resources including people, offices, software, hardware, customers, data centers, contractors, and so on, and then list all the things that can happen to them and color-code risks based on how likely and how bad they are, and then think of how they can be mitigated. And while staring at line 366 of my risk assessment, I thought to myself: I wonder how many people put OpenVMS in their risk assessments?