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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/15/2022 2:08 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.

That IBM link claims the 3500 schools are using it.

If just 1% of that number did it for VMS, then it would be progress.

Would it be a hard sell? Probably - but a lot of things are hard -
some people still do them.

Arne