[Info-vax] VMS Software, Inc. Acquires All OpenVMS Support Business from Hewlett Packard Enterprise

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

> On 10/25/2019 5:38 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 
>> Also, many young
>> people don't want to be trained in something perceived as a dead end
>> except perhaps if they were offered a life-long contract which continues
>> to pay even if they can't work with VMS anymore without requiring them
>> to learn anything new, which in most situations is just not realistic.
>

Our Indian IT-consultant partner with close to 140.000 employees has a
hard time to staff our *two* positions for VMS developers. And we have,
in the five years that has passed, lost two that had got up-to-speed with
our user environment and applications for “better” jobs in Dotnet or SAP
(I think it was). One stayed within this specific company, and left.

VMS is simply not attractive enough, in particular in the Indian IT
consulting market.


> Young people don't want a lot of things.
> 
> Golf courses are closing.  No new young people are interested in golf.
> 
> Neither of my grandsons played any sports.  Then had their X-Box, that's 
> all they wanted.
> 

That is more of a medical issue for the future, then an IT issue.

> Go to a small airport.  You won't see any (or very few) young people 
> there.  Just a bunch of old geezers.  Airlines are now considering training 
> new pilots.  They cannot find people who are already pilots.
> 

I could not care less if total flight hours were less, world-wide.
Good for the climate.

> And on that note, from Indonesia's final report:
> 
> "Further, the report found that the first officer, who had performed poorly 
> in training, struggled to run through a list of procedures that he should 
> have had memorised."
> 
> Lack of young people showing is not just a VMS issue.

In the IT business, it is (also) a VMS issue. Or any other stuff that is
concidered old or dead. There are a lot of other areas within IT that
attracts a lot of young people.

The issue is that in the current popular "gig economy", where you are
expected to take short term jobs, you want to have knowledge areas where
you can expect to easilly find "the next job". This is not optimal for
an area were it is hard to find positions and where your expertise is
just not understood or asked for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_work