[Info-vax] Hiring maintainers for legacy VMS systems

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Thu Sep 11 09:08:26 EDT 2014


On 2014-09-11 14:58, Tom Adams wrote:
> I plan to retire in about 2 years.
>
> Is it going to be very hard to find a programmer/analyst to maintain a few 100,000 lines of custom code, mostly Fortran, some C, some Datatrieve, some VMS command procedures?

Of course it is going to be. Few people today have been exposed to 
anything else than C in that list. The people who have are all also 
getting old, not to mention often already having a job.

But nothing is impossible. You'll just have to search...

	Johnny

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