FWIS3

Posted in Humor because that's what it is.

Hewlett-Packard OpenVMS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS

is an extremely robust general purpose operating system, inherited from DEC and running on VAX, Alpha, and IA64 machines. Note that I am not kidding about the "robust" part. Things like buffer overflows are very rare on VMS, both in user and kernel space. The OS has a reputation for sluggishness, ridiculous uptimes, and being very difficult to mess around with.

This is the old logo:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... ark_hp.png

Rather ugly, but memorable and very much to the point.

And this is the new logo:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... _30_lg.jpg

Oooh, pretty. But what does it mean?

It means that an entire creative team was gainfully employed for a year or more and someone in management got a bonus.

Edited to add: Because nimble as a shark just doesn't convey the warm fuzzy feeling that the corporation wanted to portray.