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

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-10-27 kl. 20:47, skrev seasoned_geek:
> On Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 4:36:37 AM UTC-5, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
> Well, the fact your company is using the Indian IT market is a signing
> example of why VMS is not attractive.

OK, to be fair. Our VMS environment is one of 60-80 server/applications
that was in the deal. And this is the only one that is VMS based.
This is not an "VMS shop".