On May 11, 12:08 pm, j(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)commandprompt(dot)com ("Joshua D. Drake") wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
>
> People still use OpenVMS? ... elitist isn't the word I would choose ;)
>
Not only do they use it, new books get written about doing application
development with it. It is still the only OS able to create a fault
tolerant world-wide cluster with complete transaction management
across all nodes. Not just database transactions, but file level and
message queue all integrated with one transaction manager.
Take a look at http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com for information
about "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application
Developer"