G2 Vendor Directory

HPE OpenVMS vs. CentOS

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricHPE OpenVMS

by HP Development Company

CentOS

by CentOS

Overall rating4.44.4
Review count19425
Ease of use8.48.7
Ease of setup9.38.7
Quality of support8.88.4
Meets requirements8.79.2
NPS55.55555663.080685
Small Business31.6%31.5%
Mid-Market42.1%38.7%
Enterprise26.3%29.8%
Total page views146294
Total LLM citations46305

HPE OpenVMS

HPE OpenVMS is a robust, multi-user, and multiprocessing operating system designed to deliver exceptional reliability, availability, scalability, and security. Originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for VAX systems, OpenVMS has evolved to support Alpha, Itanium, and x86-64 architectures. It is engineered to handle time-sharing, batch processing, transaction processing, and real-time applications, making it suitable for mission-critical environments.

Pros

  • Cloud Computing
  • Storage Management
  • Speed/Performance

CentOS

CentOS is a community-driven, free software project that provides a robust and reliable Linux distribution, serving as a foundational platform for open-source communities, cloud providers, hosting services, and scientific data processing. Derived from Fedora Linux, CentOS Stream offers a continuously delivered distribution that tracks just ahead of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), with major releases every three years and each maintained for five years.

Pros

  • Reliability
  • Stability
  • RHEL Compatibility
  • Ease of Use
  • Community Support
  • Security