[Info-vax] Possible VMS jobs

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/27/19 1:29 PM, superseth369 at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
> 

I've playeed with DIBOL on the PDP-11 but never did any
real commercial programming in it.  Did some RPG as well
many lifetimes ago.

bill