[Info-vax] Hiring maintainers for legacy VMS systems

[Tom Adams]

On Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:54:04 AM UTC-4, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <3bc565ac-f1d8-4446-beb6-8ae9916e0794 at googlegroups.com>,
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> 	Tom Adams <w.tom.adams at gmail.com> writes:
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> > I plan to retire in about 2 years.
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> > 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?
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> Probably not, if your employer is willing to bring someone in before you go
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> with enough time for you to train them.  How likely is that?  :-)
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> (Hint:  My employer won't even consider advertising for a replacement until
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> I have left the building!!)
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> bill
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The employer might go for some overlap.

BTW, My direct supervisor might end up covering.  She has the ability to do it.