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

[Paul Sture]

On Sun, 13 May 2012 21:28:51 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> 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).

Except if I look back to what happened in the run up to Y2K, IBM shops 
were allegedly crying out for COBOL expertise, but if you tried applying 
for any of those jobs they wanted someone with up to date experience.
 
>>> 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.
> 

Even the Linux flavour?

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Paul Sture