[Info-vax] Hiring maintainers for legacy VMS systems

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <3bc565ac-f1d8-4446-beb6-8ae9916e0794 at googlegroups.com>,
	Tom Adams <w.tom.adams at gmail.com> writes:
> 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?

Probably not, if your employer is willing to bring someone in before you go
with enough time for you to train them.  How likely is that?  :-)

(Hint:  My employer won't even consider advertising for a replacement until
I have left the building!!)

bill

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