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

[Bart.Zorn@gmail.com]

On Aug 23, 8:26 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

Outsourcing companies (Infosys and the likes) face the same problem.
When they are negotiating a contract, they have a plentiful supply of
specialists (they probably don't even know what OpenVMS is). But when
the day comes that they really have to take over, they are desperately
looking for external consultants. And because they are not willing to
pay reasonable rates, their success rate is even lower!

Bart