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Hiring older developers is nouveau again Federal labor reports show that programmers age like wines, even as they become more rare Migration is the same as legacy modernization when it comes to its Independent HP 3000 Information August 2013 end result. That’s change, even if the applications that move from the 3000 world still look and act just as they All migration servers live did on an HP 3000. Migration sounds more drastic because it describes the transition of apps from one platform to together in new HP group another. Modernization — especially in the hands of services companies — Reorganized HP units now 2013. Randy Meyer has been named as takes smaller steps but still wants to combine industry standard the GM of many products. Results for shift operations toward something more replacements with Unix, Linux the first combined quarter were set for popular, newer, and easier to hire for. reporting on August 22. However, that ease can Quietly this year, Hewlett-Packard says the combination become a disappointment WIRE HP reorganized its of these groups will quicken the pace of S .CO if the only goal is to hire EW M server operations. something the vendor calls “the speed of N / newer and younger 0 B Under the cover of an transformation of the server industry.” 0 L programmers who 0 O announcement of a new While the un-migrated 3000 customer work cheaper. A 3 G Converged Systems evaluates platform options, they’ve recent study showed for group, Hewlett-Packard been watching a transformation which that the older 3 probably didn’t seem to require more 0 combined its Intel Xeon- G programmer is not 0 based server business speed. Business Critical Servers (BCS), only a better value, but 0 O the home of Integrity/Itanium operations, N L with the specialized now in shorter supply. E /B Itanium-based server has been on a speedy path to a slimmer W M Bruce Hobbs, a veteran S O products. The new unit profile at HP for nearly two years. 3000 developer, pointed WIRE.C hasn’t reported its results yet; Integrity servers have become a tough out the article in IT World the reorg took place just at the sell to new customers, but a preferred which said, “Like a fine wine, end of the second HP quarter of fiscal See HP server reorg, page 6 programmers get better with age.” Researchers from the computer science department at North Carolina State University have released a study HP 3000 terminal emulation in which they examined whether programming knowledge gets better with age. Specifically, they used data on over 84,000 members of the Stack arrives on iPad screens Overflow website community: the App emerges after decades of 3000 emulation from Turbosoft questions they ask and answer in that forum, and the site reputations for An Australian software company, Turbosoft, has unveiled the first iPad app that will each user as proxies for the general emulate HP 3000 terminals, including emulation of block mode. While the functionality population of programmers and their of TTerm Pro is being reviewed elsewhere in this issue, the community might review level of programming knowledge. the costs of delivering a 3000 terminal interface to the world’s most-purchased tablet. Does age have a positive effect on Art Haddad made the first mention of TTerm on the HP 3000 programming knowledge? Community group of LinkedIn. Turbosoft wasn’t on some radar Do older programmers possess a screens for MPE-ready software, but TTerm’s Pro version for wider variety of technologies and skills? Windows has been on offer for 3000s for about 20 years. To what degree do older programmers “TTerm definitely supports Telnet connections, and the [HP learn new technologies? 3000] emulations are complete,” Haddad said. “Turbosoft has 3000 managers who are planning for been developing terminal emulation software since 1986 and the future know it’s not easy to find a the HP series of terminals has been in its Windows-based products from the early senior programmer. “I’ll be looking for 1990s. The main feature advantage that our Windows products have over the iPad range is NS-VT support, as well as scripting. 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This Hiring older developers is nouveau again — Federal labor reports help to show week I’m helping my son and his family that programmers age like fine wine, improving their productivity even while they’re move into a new house, hefting the boxes becoming a development asset in shorter supply — 1 that must be toted through our August heat. We screwed together IKEA furniture HP sets end of sales date for OpenVMS servers — It outlasted the MPE by more in his dining room full of hardwood floors, than 11 years, but OpenVMS got its marching orders to trigger another HP-sparked high vaulted ceilings, and booming AC. migration. Homesteading starts when Integrity i2 boxes stop sales in 2015 — 10 But amid all of that change — a closer Emulator speed working up to N-Class peaks — The fastest three N-Class serv- address, a vast backyard on a hill, the ers that HP ever built are still on the horizon for CHARON to match — 12 mysteries of 5.1 built-in stereo wiring and the charm of a private deck off their Staff’s collective age triggers 3000 migration — A pair of 3000 veterans in master suite — I looked at him and saw their late 60s and early 70s choose a fresh-faced future for their firm — 12 something that didn’t change. His address, Terminals on tablets open new screen doors, by Jon Diercks — A mini-review his personality, his body, they all changed. from the creator of the MPE/iX Administration Handbook shows that the first iPad But there’s one part of any of us that app for 3000 terminals includes block mode capabilities — 14 remains the same. It’s our soul, the true Server replacement unit at HP continues its decline — HP edged away from self and the part of us that witnesses all overall losing quarters, but the BCS unit making Integrity continued its slide — 15 the changes. In order to have an awareness of a soul, Would you like fries with that? by Alan Yeo — A different kind of UPS is the order there must be change for it to observe. My for a true power protection, after a storm’s surges fell an HP 3000 — 16 son’s new house for his family. The length Q&A: Rich Pugh, Making Real Customers from Virtualization — The new of his hair, along with the banking he does senior VP of sales and services at Stromasys provides updates on how the vendor of for a career. The happy chatter of his little the PA-RISC emulator is turning prospects into customers — 20 4-year-old, the humming buzz of his wife’s family all come to visit and help with the The Wide World of the Web — 22 moving. 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