[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Bill
> Gunshannon via Info-vax
> Sent: December 27, 2018 8:30 AM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?
> 
> On 12/27/18 7:53 AM, Kerry Main wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Arne Vajhøj
> >> via Info-vax
> >> Sent: December 23, 2018 9:44 PM
> >> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> >> Cc: Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk>
> >> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?
> >>
> >> 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
> >
> > My favourite on this topic:
> >
> > <http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Jurassic-Programmers->
> > "It hadn't always been that way. About six months earlier, the dinosaurs
> occupied the nicer offices. They were responsible for maintaining -- some,
> originally building -- InsuraCorp's 25-year-old cash-cow product. Though it
> worked very well, the system ran on the VMS operating system and was
> written in the now-forgotten Digital Interactive Business Oriented Language
> (DIBOL), rendering it accessible only through a text-based terminal emulator.
> In the age of the Web, and competitors with a more modern product,
> customers demanded more.
> >
> > InsuraCorp vowed to hire a new team of sharp-minded programmers to
> completely rewrite the software as a Windows application using
> VisualBasic.NET. This was the project Russ was brought on for, albeit several
> months late. With years of Windows and .NET-based development
> experience, Russ would be a great fit for the rock stars. However, he had
> some background in COBOL, so his manager wanted him to "spend some
> time" with the dinosaurs."
> >
> > Read link to see how this all turned out ..
> >
> > 😊
> 
> Cute story, but they miss-spelled MVS.  :-)
> 
> bill
> 

Reminds me of an old saying that the OS platforms that had the best and most stable clustering had the same 3 letters.

 (yes, both are A-A, shared disk cluster strategies)

😊

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com