[Info-vax] Hiring maintainers for legacy VMS systems

[Neil Rieck]

On Thursday, September 11, 2014 8:58:17 AM UTC-4, Tom Adams wrote:
> 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?

If the programing job involves "system calls", I have found it easier to bring programmers up-to-speed on OpenVMS than either UNIX/Linux or Windows. Fortran and C will be easier to support than you would think; Datatrieve and DCL more slightly more difficult than you would think.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/