Despite many claims to the contrary,
OpenVMS is alive, kicking and being used for business
critical operations by many of the world's most successful organisations. Healthcare, Telecomms, Finance, Defence,
Manufacturing and many others.
Why? Because HP OpenVMS is the most secure
and robust general purpose computing platform on the planet. For many years OpenVMS has had out-of-the-box integrated
support for configurations ranging from the desktop to disaster tolerant multi-site data-centres without
need for bolt-on extras. It also has a bright future, with continuing development of features that may sometime
in the future appear in some unix variants, and maybe even in Microsoft Windows.
Further, OpenVMS is no-longer
tied to expensive proprietary hardware, with the release of the second production quality version to fully support Intel
Itanium architecture platforms.
We offer technical support and consultancy services to OpenVMS users, most of whom consider their IT infrastructure to be critical to their business.
Despite being both virus immune, hackerproof and having the best reliability record in the industry,
problems do occasionally arise.
Whatever some may
claim, no computer system in existence is totally free of flaws, not even OpenVMS. Unlike most other operating
systems, OpenVMS has been written to include very extensive system and data integrity checking. This allows both the
detection of any inconsistency that may occur, and remedial action to be taken as the situation dictates.
Occasionally this means preserving the evidence and forcing a reboot to restore OpenVMS to a known good state.