Re: Question for the Group
- From: Arne Vajhøj <arne@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:53:39 -0400
Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
I think I mentioned recently that, in the fall of 1998, I was offered a $5000 raise and a $5000 signing bonus to take a VMS job. When the company was acquired in the summer of 2004, my services were no longer required. By anyone! The demand for VMS people has vanished. The O/S has effectively vanished. It still runs in a lot of places where Ctrl-Alt-Del is not an option but most of those places are out of the public eye.
That is the general direction since the late 90's.
The Robert Morris worm brought the Unix world to its knees a few years ago. VMS was not affected. Did anybody notice that? Did anybody step up and say "that couldn't happen to VMS"? We knew that but, if the marketing folks did, they didn't care to say so!
"Few years" ??
It was in 1988 !
If your correspondent thinks the negativity here is damaging VMS, what does he think of HP's marketing?
My guess is that he works there !
:-)
Arne
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