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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 8/23/2011 3:40 PM, John Wallace wrote:
> On Aug 23, 7:26 pm, Marc Van Dyck<marc.gr.vand... at invalid.skynet.be>
> wrote:
>> JF Mezei pretended :
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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?

We in the U.S. have our own North vs. South problems! ;-)  Southerners
speak a dialect almost impossible to understand! ;-)