[Info-vax] VSI has a new CEO

[Dave Froble]

On 8/4/2021 3:40 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <secjk1$1ts$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>
>> You may not like those auditors and they may be
>> a real PITA.
>>
>> But their point is not totally off.
>>
>> 3/4 of support team is at retirement age.
>>
>> Itanium systems are no longer being produced.
>>
>> It will be difficult to hire people with VMS Basic
>> and Macro-32 skills.
>
> But easy to train them.  I've taught some introductory VMS courses to
> people who had never heard of it before.  They all took to it readily
> and appreciated the advantages over Linux.  :-)  I really don't see that
> as a serious problem.  And they are cheaper than seasoned professionals.
> Sure, they won't be experts, but they can learn.  No reason the same
> can't apply to Basic and Macro-32 (though are there any applications
> using those languages which need to be maintained, as opposed to just
> running?).
>

No Macro-32 in apps, just the database, and it doesn't change.

The application(s) are written in Basic.  A few pieces of Macro-32 and 
C, but nothing major.

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