[Info-vax] AXIS2/C, gSOAP

[Neil Rieck]

>
> There are 2 types of VMS engineers in India. There are a few who have
> made a career of VMS. And there are the commodity drones who come and go
> as soon as they find a better job with better future elsewhere.
>
> The later type would much rather work on some industry buzzword like
> gSpot, gSoap, gThis or gThat because that puts something on their CV of
> value. They don't enhance their CV if they say they worked on adding a
> qualifier to the SET command.
>

In this case, the people working on gSOAP represent HP folks from
Germany and New Zealand (I think the original author of gSOAP hails
from Holland). I tested gSOAP last week and it is "rocket fast"
compared to "AXIS2/Java" so kudos to John and Brett. FYI, I think the
"g" in gSOAP stands for "grid".

As for you comment about "2 types of VMS engineers in India", I think
it sounds a little bit racist. The truth of the matter is that there
are "more productive" and "less productive" engineers throughout the
world. What you describe is just human nature.

I stand by my previous statement about HP treating OpenVMS "like the
red headed step child". Only the people responsible for merging HP
with Compaq thought it was a good idea, HP rank-and-file did not. You
know this is true by the problems you encounter every time you attempt
to order an OpenVMS. Like it or not, HP pushed this troublesome step
child out-of-sight by outsourcing it to India. Maybe I wasn't paying
attention but I don't remember hearing any announcements about
outsourcing HP-UX development and support to India.

So it is a done deal. The majority of OpenVMS software development and
support will be permanently done in India, and those people need our
support (not snide remarks).

Now if we could only convince them to incorporate "AXIS2/c" into their
offering. Like Bill Pedersen mentioned in a previous post, "AXIS2/c"
is open source so maybe we should just get off the pot and port it
ourselves. After all, wasn't that the whole philosophy behind the open
source movement and the Apache project in particular.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/OpenVMS.html