[Info-vax] Hiring maintainers for legacy VMS systems

[Tom Adams]

On Thursday, September 11, 2014 10:10:53 AM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2014-09-11 12:58:17 +0000, Tom Adams said:
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> > Is it going to be very hard to find a programmer/analyst to maintain a 
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> > few 100,000 lines of custom code, mostly Fortran, some C, some 
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> > Datatrieve, some VMS command procedures?
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> If the pay is deemed sufficient, the necessary help becomes available.
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> If it's FORTRAN and not Fortran source code, you'll probably need to 
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> offer hazard pay. :-)
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> Or one of the usual suspects around here can potentially be placed on 
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> retainer to provide maintenance and updates, depending on the 
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> requirements and expectations.
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I guess we could hire you to do updates in pinch while cursing my code.