[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/18/2018 12:28 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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.

I actually agree with you.

Way too many companies jump ship way too soon ending up
doing multiple migrations because they picked the wrong
technology when they were in a hurry.

And if people switched just for job security, then they
may very well got disappointed. The new stuff often
disappeared faster than the old stuff.

Arne