[Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 09-01-2010 21:50, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>> Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 09-01-2010 19:51, Neil Rieck wrote:
>>>> 6) Just as we have all seen with Solaris and OS-X when they've been
>>>> installed on quality hardware, Windows will also run better. Sure
>>>> there was the big fiasco a couple years back at the London Stock
>>>> Exchange but sometime in the future someone is going to try a stunt
>>>> like that again and it will work. When that happens programmers who
>>>> can only write code for OpenVMS will be put out to pasture.
>>>
>>> Probably already are.
>>>
>>> I think the number of 100% pure VMS jobs are
>>> extremely rare today.
>>
>> VMS jobs of any sort have been rare for the last six years or more. If
>> you have one, you had better have a second or even third string for your
>> bow! If your VMS job goes away your chances of finding another one are
>> slim.
> 
> There are still some VMS systems around that needs people.
> 
> But new hiring is close to zero.
> 
> And most of the people do *nix and Windows as well.
> 
> Arne
> 

I was doing Unix, Windows and VMS at my last job.  The Unix was running 
on X86 hardware and supporting a typesetting application.  The Windows 
part was removing virii and worms and patching Windows to close some of 
the "holes" being exploited by said virii and worms.  The VMS support 
occupied very little of my time.