[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Dave Froble]

On 12/17/2018 2:49 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

>  So, what happened
> to all of those COBOL, Fortran and Pascal jobs?

I can tell you what happened to some of the people.

Upon seeing and hearing all the negative things about VMS, some figured 
the ship was sinking, or would sink, and decided to bail out.  They 
moved to WEENDOZE, or Unix, or whatever they thought would last for a while.

It wasn't in many cases that their jobs were actually going away, it's 
that they drank the kool aid and believed the jobs would go away, and 
wanted to move on before things got critical.

I'm guessing that things didn't get so critical, but, those people were 
gone, and if they'd go, then most surely would not come back.  So, then 
you had the "it's hard to find people to work on VMS".

This is a classic example of self fulfilling prophecy.

Funny thing is, some most likely would have finished their working years 
on VMS, if they hadn't left.

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