[Info-vax] OpenVMS training - now in VSI's hands (?)

[dodecahedron99 at gmail.com]

On Sunday, March 15, 2015 at 12:26:07 AM UTC+11, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> On Saturday, 14 March 2015 11:07:47 UTC, Jan-Erik Soderholm  wrote:
> [snip so I don't upset Richard again]
> 
> > What disturbes me a little, is that that "news&Events" entry
> > is dated February 2, 2015. I'm sure I have been there well
> > after that date and did not see that entry then (?).
> > 

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> 
> I too thought I'd looked at the VSI site since Feb 2nd and don't
> remember seeing this announced. But maybe I'm misremembering.
> 


I frequent the site every other day (is this cyber stalking ?) and didn't see the announcement, then again, I didn't even notice the date as February, 
I just assumed March, so much for my observation skills *sigh*


> The course schedule looks to cover the kind of material people used to
> expect historically. Whether it's what they expect today, at the price
> they expect today, we'll see.
> 


Yes. I didn't want to be too critical as they have to start somewhere and in time I hope their training morphs more into what people need


> One thing I don't yet see is something that could appeal to those VMS
> sites that *had* basically abandoned VMS but are hopefully now renewed
> prospects for VMS. Basically, something to bring people up to date with
> what's happened to VMS in the last few years?
> 
> A few hours of highlights of new and improved features used to be the
> kind of thing presented at HPUG or by resellers or whatever.
> 


Excellent suggestion!!!

What about a quick 10 min (therefore can be uploaded on youtube using a standard account) 'catching up with OpenVMS' presentation that we can send out or give to people to let them view what's happening quickly in the OpenVMS space

First 5 mins could be what they have missed in the past 5 years and what to expect in the next 5 years?

I don't know, I'm not marketing buff by any stretch of the imagination


> Beyond that, a bit more in depth on particular aspects, maybe a day
> or two on a paid for training basis, targeted separately at admins,
> programmers, security types, whatever.
> 
> Heck, if software sales and training sales are now back in the same
> company's books (which for a long time wasn't the case), maybe the 
> concept of "training credits" with serious software sales could make
> a comeback.
> 
> And given the way the world has changed in recent years, howsabout
> something along the lines of "open source software in the world of
> VMS and VSI", if such doesn't already exist somewhere?
> 
> Happy days are here again?
> 
> Have a lot of fun!


Yes, what's the current state of play with opensource on VMS and what's expected to be coming in the near future would give some folks out there an air of confidence that VMS is not boxed into a corner