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

[Dave Froble]

On 10/26/2019 2:58 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <qp09th$6at$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>
>>>  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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> I don't care if golf courses close; I do care if VMS disappears.

You don't care about golf courses.

Jan-Erik doesn't care about flying.

The point isn't about specific activities, it is that young people do 
not follow the desires of their parents and grandparents.

When I was a teenager, I had an old car that I worked on.  Could not 
wait until I was old enough to get my driver's license.  Working on that 
car was something I wanted to do.  Now, my son never wanted to work on 
cars, and didn't get a driver license as soon as he could.  My 
granddaughter would rather call UBER.

My point was that young people have different interests, or, sometimes, 
lack of interest.

>> 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.
>
> But there is no alternative, and the investment is repaid quickly.
>
> Remember the "if operating systems were airlines"?  :-)
>
> No-one thinks that airlines will disappear for lack of young pilots.
> VMS IS ALREADY DISAPPEARING IN SOME PLACES BECAUSE PEOPLE SAY THAT THEY
> CAN'T HIRE ENOUGH YOUNG PEOPLE.  That is a FACT.  Misplaced comparisons
> do not help at all.
>


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