[Info-vax] AXIS2/C, gSOAP

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

On 2010-08-02 22:29, Neil Rieck wrote:
>>
>> 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.

 From what I remember from a TUD day (last year maybe), OpenVMS was the
last "thing" *not* already located at HP in India. I think HP-UX,
storage and networks was already there. So the message was that now
(with OpenVMS in the same spot) the cooperation between OpenVMS
development and storage/networks would be easier then before.

So the message was that this (the move of OpenVMS dev to the
HP site in India) was a sign of interst and investment in OpenVMS,
not a way to hide it away.


> So it is a done deal. The majority of OpenVMS software development and
> support will be permanently done in India,

Personaly, I could care less where it's done, as long as it *is* done.
 From my perspective this was not any "outsourcing", just a move
of the development of OPenVMS from one HP site to another, both
"overseas" as far as I'm concerned.

> and those people need our support (not snide remarks).

Absolutely.