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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 2/15/22 13:41, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-02-15, abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Others are moving away because of software resources not being available.  While the applications are solid and rarely require update, the concern is that there are few who use the older languages or understand that environment any more.  I have seen more movement into a hybrid environment where more modern techniques and languages are used for front end (consumer facing) parts of the code with the backend remaining on OpenVMS. I think that this trend will continue.
>>
> 
> When I see comments like this Dan, I keep coming back to my previous
> suggestion that VSI should implement a VMS version of IBM's Master the
> Mainframe program:
> 
> https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/zxplore
> 
> IBM's program has succeeded in building a community of people who are
> now aware of z/OS and now have the skills to start using it.
> 
> A VMS version of this program would be a great way of building a base
> of people with general knowledge and awareness of VMS and it would be
> a good way of making VMS seem not so alien to people raised purely on
> the Unix and Windows way of doing things.
> 


I only see one likely problem with this idea.  What possible incentive
would there be for anyone to do it?  VMS hardly has the name value or
recognition of IBM today.

bill