OpenVMS Application Development Now on Dr. Dobb's Recommended Reading List

Online, January 25, 2012 (Newswire.com) - It has been many years since the operating system which makes most of the world's steel and paper, controls weapons systems, operates nuclear plants, and controls the trading systems at industry leading financial institutions like the Shanghai Stock Exchange has been featured on the Dr. Dobb's recommended reading list. This week Dr. Dobb's put out their latest recommended developer reading list and you will find ISBN-13: 9780977086603 "The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer" listed on it.

OpenVMS has had a resurgence of interest in the post 911 world. On that day companies which used distributed OpenVMS clusters continued to trade until the end of the business day without losing transactions despite losing entire locations. People are once again beginning to realize why this operating system is the one most often trusted with national security, human life, and money; in that order. The Shanghai Stock Exchange actually stunned many so-called "industry analysts" when it threw out a trading floor system running on HP-UX to replace it with a system running on modern OpenVMS.

This book is available in print from both Alibris.com and BN.COM. It includes a CD containing the source code from the book. Weighing in at around 800 pages this book isn't dry theory, but rather the best method of education. It assumes the reader has studied one or more of the programming languages covered in the book. It also assumes that language was learned on a completely different platform.

The secret to success for this book is the Mega Zillionare example application which is developed over and over and over again. As each new language and data storage method are covered the application is developed yet again. This allows the reader to compare what they know with the new information to quickly learn the new information.

Overseas buyers no longer need to worry about the high cost of shipping such a heavy book. An EPUB version ISBN-13 978-0-9770866-3-4 is now available from both Sony and Barnes & Nobel.

Sony eBookstore

Barnes & Noble

The contents of the original source code CD can be downloaded from The Minimum You Need to Know Web site

The Sony eBookstore is currently the only eBookstore stocking all titles from The Minimum You Need to Know book series.

Other Titles:
"The Minimum You Need to Know About Logic to Work in IT"
"The Minimum You Need to Know About Java on OpenVMS Volume 1"
"The Minimum You Need to Know About Java and xBaseJ"

and the 2009 Best Books award winner
"The Minimum You Need to Know About Service Oriented Architecture"

In Q1 of 2012 we will also be releasing
"The Minimum You Need to Know About Qt and Databases"
and
"The Minimum You Need to Know About Mono and Qt"
in EPUB format.

While you are at the Sony site, please take a look at Infinite Exposure. The first novel ever released by this same author. It tells a story about how the off-shoring of IT jobs and data centers leads to the largest terrorist strike the financial system has ever seen before the end of 2012. As one reviewer said on the Barnes & Noble Web site:

"You can imagine a suitcase exploding in the middle of Times Square, slaughtering hundreds of tourists and commuters in its wake. But, how many of us have contemplated the possibility of a terrorist plot that does not involve a single missile or IED? In his compelling novel Infinite Exposure, Roland Hughes challenges his readers to look at a world in which technology, economics, and old-fashioned greed merge to spark the Armageddon in a way that, although perhaps much different than most of us have imagined, seems all too plausible."