On May 11, 12:08 pm, j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ("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"