[Info-vax] Hiring maintainers for legacy VMS systems

[David Froble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <29efc57f-91a1-4294-b714-f72f29079fa8 at googlegroups.com>,
> 	Bob Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> writes:
>> On Thursday, September 11, 2014 8:58:17 AM UTC-4, 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?
>> Tom,
>>
>> There are still plenty of us around who know more than simply a smattering of C++ and Linux (smile).
>>
>> In my repertoire, I can count FORTRAN, BASIC, C/C++, COBOL, PL/I, various assemblers (System/360, IBM 1620, IBM 1130, PDP-11, VAX, ALPHA, x86, nVidia, 12-bit PIC, and others), plus the usual collection of command languages.
>>
> 
> Bob,
>   I think he was looking for someone who wasn't right behind him in the
> retirement line.  :-)
> 
>   I'm out of consideration because I'm in front of him.
> 
> bill
> 

The key question is, "is this a full time position?".  If so, hire and 
train.  If not, then you're looking for a part time consultant, and 
we're lazy and expensive ....

Worst part if you go the consultant route, you're still going to have to 
train him / her on the applications ....