Good, Better, Best

Welcome to the book that answers the questions why OpenVMS? Linux? and just how do you get these two computer operating systems (OSs) to work together?

Why in the world would you want to have them work together? Let me try to answer that by briefly saying that there are customers who adore OpenVMS its cluster technology and full-service support. Linux is into Open Source, with tens of thousands of coders in its court. What a wild duet! But still, they're cousins open systems cousins.

Now, without singing the rest of the Patty Duke theme music; the two operating systems have much in common: their network interface protocols; Open Source tools; industry standards; commercial database products; X Windows; and industry-standard security tools for encryption, tunneling, and secure communications. If general tools are on both Linux and OpenVMS, why continue to use two different OSs? Simply because OpenVMS has features and abilities that Linux or any other OS would be hard pressed to deliver.

What does OpenVMS have? OpenVMS provides something that you only get with 25 years of testing and use enterprise-class stability and reliability in almost every configuration it's used in.

What does Linux bring to the table? Today Linux is Open Source, with thousands of programmers working on new and exciting applications worldwide, sharing base source codes, and delivering low-cost tools and software that improve the entire software industry.

Together, OpenVMS and Linux provide the best of Open Source and the best of commercial...