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VSI just announced their fall training program:
https://trainings.vmssoftware.com/fall-school-2025
Which to me seems very much geared towards the new VMS
system manager.
Which is good and bad. I assume that the course
offerings reflects the demand.
It is good that companies are hiring new people to manage
their VMS systems and are willing to invest in their training.
It indicates that those companies expect VMS to be around
for a long time.
It is bad that there are no courses geared towards the
new VMS application developer. It indicate that companies
are not making significant investments in new applications
on VMS or major enhancements to existing applications on VMS.
On 2025-07-14, Arne Vajh|+j <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
VSI just announced their fall training program:
https://trainings.vmssoftware.com/fall-school-2025
Which to me seems very much geared towards the new VMS
system manager.
Which is good and bad. I assume that the course
offerings reflects the demand.
It is good that companies are hiring new people to manage
their VMS systems and are willing to invest in their training.
It indicates that those companies expect VMS to be around
for a long time.
It is bad that there are no courses geared towards the
new VMS application developer. It indicate that companies
are not making significant investments in new applications
on VMS or major enhancements to existing applications on VMS.
That doesn't surprise me unfortunately. It is very clear that you
will need ongoing staff to give the servers a good kick when they
go wrong, but it is also clear that those same systems are now in
legacy mode, so you don't need people to make changes to them.
In other words, this just formalises what has already generally
been accepted to be the case.
That doesn't surprise me unfortunately. It is very clear that you
will need ongoing staff to give the servers a good kick when they
go wrong, but it is also clear that those same systems are now in
legacy mode, so you don't need people to make changes to them.
In other words, this just formalises what has already generally
been accepted to be the case.
On 2025-07-14 18:46:35 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
That doesn't surprise me unfortunately. It is very clear that you
will need ongoing staff to give the servers a good kick when they
go wrong, but it is also clear that those same systems are now in
legacy mode, so you don't need people to make changes to them.
In other words, this just formalises what has already generally
been accepted to be the case.
I've done developer-focused OpenVMS training courses.
Most recently was a course for using C on OpenVMS.
There hasn't been much call for those classes, though.