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

[abrsvc]

On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 9:56:43 AM UTC-5, 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. 
> 
> Lots of speculation. 
> 
> :-) 
> 
> Arne

The experience required depends on the ultimate goal.  I have/am involved with clients where my skills are used to explain the current programming to those not familiar with the languages and OpenVMS.  This site may already have FORTRAN folks that can provide this.

Dan