[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 2/15/22 09:56, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 2/15/2022 8:04 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> National Computing Group
>> West Mifflin, PA
>>
>> Document, plan and execute the modernization of Fortran applications 
>> running on OpenVMS systems to a virtualized Windows Server environment.
>> --------
>>
>> Does anyone watch for these postings and then try to convince them to
>> not move away from VMS?   Or at least find out why they are moving.
> 
> I found the ad.
> 
> And what is puzzling me is that it is not clear whether
> they will keep Fortran or not.
> 
> <quote>
> Document and migrate systems currently running Visual Basic, and older 
> Java code to a modern .Net framework
> Document, plan and execute the modernization of Fortran applications 
> running on OpenVMS systems to a virtualized Windows Server environment.
> ...
> Software Engineer / Developer with minimum of 1-2 years of experience 
> developing in Java, C, and C#. Knowledge of the Visual Studio IDE. 
> Comfortable with both Linux/Unix and Windows environments.
> 
> Must be willing to work with OpenVMS and FOTRAN.
> 
> Development experience with FORTRAN, .Net Core or SignalR a plus
> 
> Experience with Tableau a plus
> 
> Experience with SQL and Oracle a plus
> ...
> Experience:
> 
>      Java: 3 years (Required)
>      C#: 1 year (Required)
> </quote>
> 
> It seems pretty clear that client side is changing from
> VB6 and Java (AWT or Swing) desktop apps on Windows to
> browser and an ASP.NET web app on Windows.
> 
> Server side is moving from Fortran on VMS to something
> on Windows. But what is something? Not mentioning new language
> points to keeping Fortran. But Fortran is really niche on
> Windows and there is little emphasis on Fortran skills
> in the ad. If I were to hire someone to port Fortran code
> from VMS to Windows then I would insist on someone
> with Fortran skills, but if porting from Fortran on VMS to
> something else (like C# or Java) on Windows, then Fortran
> skills are not quite as important.

They are if he needs to be able to understand Fortran to
do the port.   :-)

> 
> Lots of speculation.
> 
> :-)
> 
> Arne

bill