[Info-vax] VSI OpenVMS Community License

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Well well...

Took my first VMS/DCL introduction course some 30+ years ago.
Have been doing VMS work every single workday since then.
Up to 2000 as emploided and up to now running my own company.

My current/last assignment was cancelled by the customer on the
last on June 2023 (last summer). I'm now into retirement plans...

So what now? It is very mixed feelings. As much as I have loved
my VMS work over the years, it is an very "empty" feeling at the
moment. I have obviously put to much work and devotion in this
and it is today clear that I have been very close to loosing both
my wife and my familly over the years. That hurts *a lot* today.
The only positive part is that I have provided an economical
stability today for my wife and familly, but I have lost a lot
of my childrens grow-up time.

It is like all my efforts spent on work are just worthless today.
Now I'm 100% devoted to my wife who I try to make up for all the
lost time the last 40 years (incl my 10 PDP-11 years).

I will probably simply leave everything VMS related behind and
will not be either here on c.o.v or on the VSI forum.

I might get a call from my last customer to do some consulting
when they start up the project to move of the VMS platform into
something else. I can just as well milk some last money from them,
as long as it doesn't interfere with my devotion to my wife.


It has been some fun also, with VMS and c.o.v. Thanks all!

Jan-Erik Söderholm
Sweden.