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HP Reverses Course on Openvms 3 | Six Wrong Reasons to Hire a Consultant 40 HPOU REVERSES C RSE ON OPENVMS 3 | SIX WRONG REASONS TO HIRE A CONSULTANT 40 ® September 2014 How Analytics Empowers Business: Our 20 honorees are mining data to identify sales opportunities, deliver vital services and more accurately predict costs. 8 VOL. 1, NO. 2 For breaking news, visit computerworld.com / View our magazine archives at computerworld.com/magindex COMPUTERWORLD Table of Contents P.O. Box 9171, 492 Old Connecticut Path, Framingham, MA 01701-9171 | (508) 879-0700 The 20 winners of Computerworld’s » EDITORIAL Gregg Keizer, Lucas Mearian, 2014 Data+ Editors’ Choice Patrick Thibodeau, Jaikumar Vijayan Editor in Chief Awards are reaping business Scot Finnie Editorial Project Manager benefits from big data.COVER AGE Mari Keefe Executive Editors BEGINS ON PAGE 8 Ellen Fanning (features and design) Senior Associate Editor Julia King (events) Rebecca Linke WINNERs | 9 AstraZeneca | 10 BlueCross Managing Editors Office Manager Johanna Ambrosio (technologies) Linda Gorgone BlueShield of Tennessee | 11 Cisco | 12 Colorado Sharon Machlis (online) Contributing Editors DHSEM | 14 CGIAR | 15 Emory University Ken Mingis (news) Jamie Eckle, Preston Gralla, JR Raphael Bob Rawson (production) | 17 HealthTrust | 18 Idaho National Laboratory | » CONTacTS 20 Intel | 22 Keller Williams Realty | 24 Kennesaw Assistant Managing Editor Valerie Potter (features) Phone numbers, email addresses and State University | 26 Kisters | 27 LA Clear reporters’ beats are available online at | 28 Merck | 29 Persistent Systems | 31 Point Art Director Computerworld.com (see the Contacts April Montgomery link at the bottom of the home page). Defiance Zoo and Aquarium | 33 Shine Technologies Senior Reviews Editor Letters to the Editor | 35 SwiftIQ | 36 Texas Children’s Hospital | Barbara Krasnoff Send to [email protected]. 37 Thomson Reuters Features Editor Include an address and phone number Tracy Mayor for immediate verification. Letters will be edited for brevity and clarity. News Editors Mike Bucken, Marian Prokop News tips NEWS ANALYSIS 3 Hewlett-Packard throws a lifeline to OpenVMS [email protected] users. | OPINIONS 6 Paul Glen says you should blame yourself National Correspondents Julia King, Robert L. Mitchell Tech newsletters when your boss overloads you. | 40 Bart Perkins lists six wrong Sign up now for top stories, Reporters breaking news and more at: reasons to hire a consultant. | DEPARTMENTS 38 Shark Tank Sharon Gaudin, Matt Hamblen, www.computerworld.com/s/newsletters MORE ON COMPUTERWORLD.COM Copyright © 2014 Computerworld Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission Security Manager’s Journal: Ransomware flops, thanks to security awareness of Computerworld Inc. is prohibited. Computerworld and Computerworld.com and the respective logos are trademarks of International Data Group Inc. SEPTEMBER 2014 | COMPUTERWORLD 2 NEWS ANALYSIS OPERATING SYSTEMS Itanium chips and is promising eventual support for x86 proc- essors. In June 2013, HP announced that it would not validate the operating system to its latest hardware or produce new ver- sions of it. The move to license the OpenVMS source code to a new entity, VMS Software Inc. (VSI), amounts to a reversal of that decision. “HP and VSI have provided what appears to be a path for- ward for existing VMS sites,” said Stephen Hoffman, who was on the OpenVMS engineer- ing team at Digital Equipment Corp., where the system was de- veloped, and then at Compaq, YEAR AFTER putting which acquired Digital and was OpenVMS on a later acquired by HP. HP Reverses Course, path to extinction, Hoffman is now an indepen- Hewlett-Pacakard dent consultant at HoffmanLabs. Gives OpenVMS New Life Areversed course and licensed Many OpenVMS users just A year after saying it planned to end support for OpenVMS, the venerable operating system want to be able to stay on the Hewlett-Packard licenses the esteemed operating system to a new company that plans operating system. HP stirred to a startup. BY PATRICK THIBODEAU to develop ports to the latest up a slew of complaints among THINKSTOCK SEPTEMBER 2014 | COMPUTERWORLD 3 NEWS ANALYSIS OPERATING SYSTEMS OpenVMS users when it said it a longtime OpenVMS support ary,” Harris said, citing Open- would not validate OpenVMS and maintenance firm. VMS’s disaster recovery, security beyond Integrity i2 services In a road map, VSI outlined and clustering capabilities. running Tukwila quad-core plans to validate the operating OpenVMS is largely invis- processors. That decision effec- system on Intel’s Itanium eight- ible in a world dominated by tively put the operating system core Poulson chips by early Windows, Linux, cloud-based on an end-of-life path. 2015. The company also said it systems, and even Unix systems The latest announcement would support OpenVMS on such as HP-UX, AIX and So- came just days after an Open- HP hardware running the up- laris. But it runs critical systems VMS user group in France posted coming Kittson chip and that it and its users consistently praise will develop an x86 port — al- it for its reliability, engineering though it didn’t specify a time and capabilities. HP and VSI have provided what frame for the latter initiative. HP has about 2,500 Open- appears to be a path forward VSI also plans to develop new VMS customers on support for existing VMS sites. versions of OpenVMS. contracts. That does not in- STEPHEN HOFFMAN, CONSULTANT, HOFFMANLABS clude OpenVMS users who use Legendary Strengths independent support vendors, VSI CEO Duane Harris said such the Parsec Group, which an “open letter” to Hewlett-Pack- his company approached HP has 350 OpenVMS customers ard CEO Meg Whitman urging about OpenVMS because of running some 7,000 systems. her to reconsider the decision to the operating system’s strong VSI hopes to expand the pull support for OpenVMS. The customer base. OpenVMS is OpenVMS market and sell the letter described the role of Open- used in nuclear power plants, software to new customers. It VMS in running transportation in process control systems in all intends to modernize the op- systems, health services and industries, by the U.S. Navy and erating system’s application nuclear power plants in France. in transportation and finance. development tools and improve VSI is funded by the inves- “It’s a marquee piece of soft- its capabilities — including the tors of Nemonix Engineering, ware; its strengths are legend- number of cores it can support. SEPTEMBER 2014 | COMPUTERWORLD 4 NEWS ANALYSIS OPERATING SYSTEMS software, beginning early next BETWEEN THE LINES | JOHN KLOSSNER year with a port to HP Integrity OpenVMS i4 systems running the eight- is the most core Poulson chip. Previously, secure HP said it would not validate operating OpenVMS beyond its Integrity system out i2 servers running the Tukwila there. quad-core processor. DUANE HARRIS, CEO, VSI “There is obviously a need to build a track record,” Hoffman said of the new company, noting Harris believes OpenVMS’s that OpenVMS customers “are security features and fault toler- classically conservative” and ance will be strong points. will want to see and touch the “We feel very strongly that software that VSI delivers before OpenVMS is the most secure they run it in their production operating system out there, environments. “That would not and certainly more secure than be particularly different from a Windows and certainly more new HP release,” he added. secure than Linux,” said Harris. Noting that moving an Open- VMS application to another having an impact. On the Veteran Developers platform is costly and time-con- comp.os.vms Google Groups VSI said it has assembled a team suming, Hoffman said VSI “has discussion forum, one person of veteran OpenVMS develop- the potential to throw custom- wrote that “two OpenVMS exit ers, some from the core DEC ers a lifeline . and the custom- projects here at work (a con- team that developed the operat- ers are definitely interested.” version to Linux and another ing system back in the 1970s. The change in the road map to SAP) have been put on hold VSI plans to deliver new for OpenVMS may already be indefinitely.”u SEPTEMBER 2014 | COMPUTERWORLD 5 PAUL GLEN OPINION PAUL GLEN is the co-author of The Geek Leader’s Handbook and a principal of Leading Geeks, an education and consulting firm devoted to clarifying the murky world of human emotion for people who gravitate toward concrete thinking. You can contact him at [email protected]. When Your Boss Overloads You, Blame Yourself AT WORK, DO YOU EVER FEEL the projects will ever end. time in productive work. like one of those circus per- You’re caught up in what’s And when this happens, formers spinning plates on the commonly known as thrashing, most of us curse our bosses for top of poles? With a dozen dif- spending a disproportionate giving us too much to do. We ferent projects going at once, amount of your time switching blame them for our stress and you spend your time frantically between projects. Every time lack of productivity. running from one to another, you set one aside and pick up But you shouldn’t blame your attending to each just enough to another, it takes mental and boss for this. It’s as much your keep them all spinning. You’re emotional energy to stop one fault as it is hers. exhausted from the relentless train of thought and remind A boss’s job is to get as much pace but know that the best yourself where you left off on done as possible with the re- you’re going to do is avoid the the other. When you do this too sources available. Many manag- crashing disaster of letting them often, you spend most of your ers interpret that as meaning drop. And it feels like none of time switching and little of your they have to heap as much work SEPTEMBER 2014 | COMPUTERWORLD 6 PAUL GLEN OPINION as possible on the people they cerned that the next thing your Either way, you’re not being supervise.
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