[Info-vax] VSI employee retirements

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/1/2023 3:18 AM, Douy Xebis wrote:

I will assume that this is a made up name to protect the
identity of someone that actually knows.

> On 1/23/2023 8:09 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-01-22, David Turner <dturner at islandco.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I heard from an old friend and Dealer in the VSI neighborhood that a few
>>> more got their pink slips a few weeks ago.
>>> This has got to be unnerving for the employees
>>>
>>
>> Ok, that's rather different from people choosing to leave and finally
>> retire. It's also a little worrying if true, because where VSI are
>> finally at with VMS means they should, if anything, currently be hiring
>> more employees to handle the workload from people moving to x86-64.
>>
>> Do you know for sure that people have been fired by VSI or is this
>> really still people just deciding to leave VSI to retire ?
> 
> About a dozen engineers were fired.

This is bad news.

VSI really needs all engineers to proceed. There are still
stuff missing in VMS x86-64 not the least the native compilers.
Realistically there will also be bugs found when customers
start migrating to VMS x86-64. And probably a big demand
for consulting assistance during migration projects as well.
And then there is the entire "VMS modernization post x86-64 port".
Lots of work.

I obviously wonder why. I don't think there is a sudden decrease
in demand for VMS. VMS usage is I believe on a pretty steady
course. That steady course is a long term problem but should not
be a short term problem.

I wonder if VSI has loans with variable interest rates or if
Johan Gedda financeds his ownership of VSI with loans with
variable interest rates. As everybody knows then interest rates
has gone up significantly. Money has become expensive. This
is of course just speculation, but it could explain why
there is a sudden need to cut payroll cost.

Arne