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OpenVMS links


Resources:

Documentation can be found on the web: the VMS manuals, and forums that cabn help you whenever you have a question. To participate, you need to register (which is free).

As to be expected: HP's OpenVMS pages as a starting point. Below that, the OpenVMS IT Resource centre (ITRC) can be contacted used mainly to get - or supply - information. This is the place for online-documentation, patches etcetera.

On the 2006 bootcamp, 5 of the them top-10 users were present - Here is a photograph of those that were present - in front of the all-famous OpenVMS quilt.

www.openvms.org is a site that holds all kinds of last-minute info on OpenVMS and related subjects. It has forums too.

Other forums on VMS I participate in are

www.decuserve.org is a admin-to-admin - or better: user-to-user site. It also contains masses of information, a lot of people participating in above forums can be found there as well. But it's not only OpenVMS - you find all kinds of data, ranging from RSX (on PDP) to Windows. The US chapter of Decus (the DEC User Society) changed it's name to Encompassus , so it's successor has a page too: www.encompassus.org

OpenVMS requires licenses before you can use the system, and you need separate ones for a number of products, such as compilers. 

www.openvmshobbyist.org is the site for non-profit, hobbyist VMS users. You can get free 1-year licenses - but only after you joined a user group, like
Interex Netherlands. But these may ask some fee to become a member.
The CHEAPEST way is to sign up as associate of Encompassus at http://www.encompassus.org/membership/join.html. Read about the different types of membership and decide which is best for you

Except licensed software, there is a quite lot of freeware for OpenVMS.
Some places are Process's FileServe and Hunter Goatley's site (and his own software site MadGoat). Of course, there is a LOT of software at HP - take a look at the OpenVMS Freeware pages that holds links to the last and previous CD's.

Other software - part of which is free - is officially supported by HP. This is typically used in e-business: allow data access, web-enable applications, and create new possibilities. This is the entry page from where these solutions and technologies can be accessed and downloaded. 

My employer is one of the very few companies having still a group of professionals dedicated to OpenVMS: VX Company (in Dutch, it has a link to the English version on top)

Here's my blog on the systems. Not updated daily.

This is an article I wrote for the OpenVMS Technical Journal.


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