[Info-vax] Real live example...

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-02-20, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> wrote:
>  From a press release last week:
>
> "Tietoevry is a longstanding Telia partner and will serve as a strategic 
> advisor to the project, which will start at the beginning of March 2023. As 
> part of the code and data migration process, Tietoevry will harness 
> Advanced?s professional services capabilities, automated transformation 
> tooling, and runtime components to eliminate Telia Finance Final?s current 
> dependency on OpenVMS. This includes migrating an estimated 1.5 million 
> lines of COBOL code plus other programming languages to the cloud-ready 
> language, Java."
>
> Press release:
> https://modernsystems.oneadvanced.com/news-and-opinion/telia-finance-selects-tietoevry--advanced-for-application-modernization-initiative/
>

For those of you still thinking VMS can grow into new sites, the above is
well worth a read. In particular:

|From ongoing skills gap pressures to the emphasis of de-risking business,
|companies today are prioritizing legacy mainframe modernization more than
|ever before.

That's how VMS is seen today, not as an asset, but as a liability to the
people still running it.

The above is what VSI should have been addressing, not creating new licences
that drove even more people away from VMS.

Simon.

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