[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/23/2018 9:34 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

Legacy vs new stuff:

https://dilbert.com/strip/2017-02-23

:-)

Arne