[Info-vax] Possible VMS jobs

[superseth369 at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 1:32:19 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/19/18 1:22 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> > On 12/19/2018 12:31 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> >> So, if one is to believe the comments posted here, there are
> >> a lot of places out there now with homegrown legacy applications
> >> written in legacy languages still running on VMS (possibly
> >> even legacy versions on legacy hardware).
> > 
> > We know there are VMS systems out there.
> > 
> > And there may be more than we think.
> > 
> > I am sure that the people behind VSI got to see some numbers at HP
> > before VSI was created and that those numbers must have looked
> > interesting because otherwise there would not have been a VSI.
> > 
> > And it seems reasonable to assume that a very large part of
> > them run at least partly bespoke solutions.
> > 
> > The number of standard solutions only available on VMS is small
> > and if a standard solution was also available on Unix/Linux/Windows,
> > then they likely would have migrated years ago.
> > 
> > And the vast majority of these systems was introduced decades ago
> > (if recent then another platform would have been chose).
> > 
> > That indicates that the main language must be one of the traditional
> > languages (Cobol, Fortran, Pascal, C and maybe Ada or PL/I).
> > DEC C++, Java, PHP, Python etc. was not available back then.
> > Some peripheral stuff may have been added later in newer languages.
> 
> I should have included Pascal, too, but not having done
> any serious Pascal in a long, long time, I forgot that one.
> 
> > 
> > So yes they should be there.
> > 
> >>                                                 Any idea how one
> >> with legacy experience might find these people with the intention
> >> of seeking some work they might need done?
> > 
> > That is a very good question.
> > 
> > VSI (and HPE) should have some insight based on service contracts
> > and various purchases.
> > 
> > But that is not available to the public.
> > 
> > Obviously many people know small pieces of the puzzle.
> > 
> > But they may not want to publish it to the public.
> > 
> > I think you should ask for people that know about
> > VMS systems to send you some info via direct email.
> 
> That's kinda what I was doing here.  Hopefully there are
> a few of these sites lurking here and maybe one of them
> will see the posting and say something.
> 
> Not looking for much.  I come cheap as I don't really need
> benefits any more.  And, the comment was made that salaries
> tend to be low and my requirements there are more reasonable.
> Won't work for peanuts, but also  not needing to earn enough
> to live on.  A couple of part-time, remote jobs would be nice.
> And, besides, how many other COBOL/Fortran/Pascal programmers
> are out there looking for work?  Surely somebody out there
> has a stack of SCR's that need chatching up.
> 
> bill

and you left out dibol now synergy dbl.