[Info-vax] inertia or fundamentals about langages?

[Dave Froble]

On 5/21/2019 9:20 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 5/21/19 9:05 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 5/21/2019 7:46 PM, Forster, Michael wrote:
>>> Respectfully, many of us do not have a choice as to whether to
>>> modernize. Either because of vendor or vendors or site/employer
>>> decisions, and sometimes due to a combination of both. As an employee
>>> or consultant or contractor, we have the decision as to stay or go.
>>> This is perhaps based on our personal goal or aspirations.
>>
>> As an employee, contractor, or consultant, it should also be your job
>> to constantly update management as to options and what's available.
>> Management may not respond to every update, that's their option.
>>
>>
>
> Dave,
>    You are missing the most important point.  Certification is
> required, often regulatory.  (Think Nuclear Power Plants)
> Certification can cost millions of dollars and take years to
> accomplish.  Employees, contractors and consultants can make
> all the suggestions they want.  It won't get a system certified.
> You do know that some GE Nuclear Power Plants are still being
> controlled by PDP_11's, right?
>
> bill
>
>

No, I understand those limitations.  I was responding to Michael's post 
as a general issue, not where there are certifications that take priority.

Regardless, at some level, technical people need to inform management of 
options.  That's the only way the management will know about such options.

As for the GE installations, perhaps they intend to run the PDP-11s 
until the plants close.  Or GE would be the entity that would need to 
certify newer options.  One would hope they would have learned the 
lessons from the past.

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