[ALUG] The thick plottens...

[Laurie Brown]

Wayne Stallwood wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 16:27 +0100, ted.harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
>> However,
>>  cannot resist quoting the remaining defunct airline]:

>>   VMS Airlines 

> I'd like to see you go to pretty much any bank or LFO (large financial
> organisation) and tell them that VMS is defunct

> Sure they are planning on migrating away from it, given that the last
> porting effort was to itanium which may not have a certain future, but
> they are still running it and probably will do for a long time yet.

> Oh and up until very very recently every SMS routed via most Mobile
> phone networks was routed by VMS, they are mostly trying to migrate to a
> Linux platform at the moment.

How I'd love a job porting from VMS to Linux! I have oodles of VMS
experience, albeit somewhat rusty now. I worked in several European
countries as a programmer and then 3rd-line support on VMS for about 14
years. I've got the best part of 10 years on Linux now as well.

Cheers, Laurie.
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                                Laurie Brown
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