[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/13/2012 10:25 AM, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Paul Sture schrieb:
>> Go back another 7 years and sticking with IBM was advice I was given.
>
> Which wasn't such a bad device after all.
> Their mainframe business is still alive and well,
> it seems.

It is still alive.

It is certainly more widely used than VMS.

But the demand for people does not look that good (actually
it may look good short term as a lot of mainframe people will
retire soon).

>> Go back 22 years instead and getting into Unix and Sun was the advice,
>> based on their catalogue of applications which ran on their systems.
>
> And this one wasn't too bad too.
> If you look at it, Unix is just everywhere,
> in one flavour or another.

Also dropping. Exactly same as VMS just 10-15 years delayed.

Arne