[Info-vax] FWIW: HP to spin off PSG?

[John Wallace]

On Aug 23, 7:26 pm, Marc Van Dyck <marc.gr.vand... at invalid.skynet.be>
wrote:
> JF Mezei pretended :
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>
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> > However, except for a few people left who know about VMS's strengths,
> > there is nobody left to push for a VMS solution and battle the image
> > that VMS is dead, IA64 is a dead end and that a combination of VMS/IA64
> > cannot be a strategically good decision.
>
> This is indeed the biggest problem now. We still actively invest and
> develop in VMS, but when the current team of system engineers, who are
> all in their fifties, will retire, there will be nobody to take over.
> There are almost no experienced engineers to find on the market
> anymore,
> and newbies, with only a Linux and Windows background, are not
> interested at all in developing VMS skills. We will probably be left
> with an outsourcing solution only...
>
> --
> Marc Van Dyck

Has anyone considered recruiting in currently non-conventional places?
E.g. not New England, not India. In Olde England I believe Reading,
Basingstoke, Livingstone [1], and maybe even Bristol and Warrington
had some relevant skills at one time.

[1] It's Scotland not England, but how many US folks would understand
the difference?