28 Nov
2000
28 Nov
'00
1:49 p.m.
The open was added around the time of the compaq
merger. the sales and
other external peripheria started using OpenVMS to counter the idea that
VMS was a sealed OS, anyone with internals training or a complete knew
that VMS was as open as could be had without giving the code away.
The idea had to be sold as really closed OSs were well known then
(early 90s) as IBM.
Huh? The Open was added around the 6.0/6.1 timeframe. The Compaq merger
was during the 7.2eft timeframe. I'd thought the namechange was a
combination of emphasising it's openess, but largly a reaction to the fact
they now had VMS running on both VAX and Alpha.
Zane