As a person who supports a 24x7 mission-critical VMS application with several million subscribers, the W Boudville person is, well, wrong. COBOL has been dead for decades too. No, wait, our app has a LOT of COBOL too. Not as sexy as whatever the latest trend is, but, darn, still works, reliably.Just out of college, looking to set the world on fire? So was I 22 years ago. VMS has done pretty well by me. Now... I'd be writing Java and CSS and HTML and... Wait a minute, I do that TOO!Anyway, neither my review or his has anything to do with this BOOK!Oh, I work for HP and no-one that I know of has tried to get our customer off of VMS and on to HP-UX.