[Info-vax] OT: OpenVMS Medical job

[David J Dachtera]

seasoned_geek wrote:
> 
> This showed up in my Indeed mail.
> 
> http://jobs.nwsource.com/careers/jobsearch/detail?jobId=20088804&viewType=main&networkView=main&cmpid=indeed
> 
> I have heard some of you worked in the medical field until HP made a
> deliberate effort to kill off all OpenVMS presence in that market. 

I had to pause and consider that a moment. It brought to mind a line
from the "Rocky Rhodes" character voiced by Mel Gibson in the
clay-mation movie, "Chicken Run": when accused of lying, he said that he
simply "omitted certain truths".

HP did the same. They omitted mention of VMS in favor of HP/UX. That
was, as Roland put it, "the bait". The industry's "take" on it was:

"omission of VMS = VMS is EOL".

Not unreasonable - and probably intentional on HP's part, but not
entirely accurate at the time.

Now, it is not inaccurate.

> It
> appears some places didn't take the bait.
> 
> I doubt any of you are willing to move to Seattle, but wanted to pass
> this along.

Depends whether there is an option to work remotely and what the
associated travel requiremnets would be.

They list VMS, Multinet and Ingres. So, we know they're not talking
about a high transaction volume environment.

D.J.D.