jpe is on podium

[Antoniov.]

Jan van den Ende from the Nederland deserves the vms podium.
My congratulations for his hard and usefull work in this forum.
Jan, now I have to rush to reaching you ;-)

Antonio Vigliotti

[Jan van den Ende · Accepted solution]

Antonio,

Thanks!

... and I intend to try & keep ahead of you!
Let the 'battle' be fair!

But, look behind you as well!
Volker is _REALLY_ speeding upward!

Proost.

Have one on me (some good wine will suit you best, I believe?)

jpe

[Antoniov.]

Jan,
yes Volker is rushing and Robert Gezelter too.
I believe you have to 'fight' very hard to keep yourself on podium!
Today one beer on me!

Antonio Vigliotti

P.S. I didn't forget give points. I want to wait for your some day :LOL:

[Uwe Zessin]

Oh, I'm a bit slow this morning :-(

Now I understand: Jan's climbed to #3 in the list.

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Congratulations!

Isn't that funny?
3 people who's first name has 3 characters are in the first 3 positions ;-)

[Ian Miller.]

fine piece of ASCII art Uwe :-)

I also wondered which podium.

Every one of Jan's answers is worth reading. If you compare this place to comp.os.vms the signal to noise ratio is so much higher. See you in Nashua (just under 4 weeks to go now).

[Antoniov.]

vms podium sorrounds North Sea.
Short name, quick response!

Antonio Vigliotti

[Uwe Zessin]

I didn't dare to put a colorful .PPT here ;-)

Sorry, won't be in Nashua, it slightly collides with the ENSA in DK and I have already been in London, UK and CXO this year. It's time to do some real work ;-)

[Willem Grooters]

Jan,

Da's het beter werk!

Just wondering: Since the most experienced system managers seem to have time left to help the innocent (in fact no wonder with VMS systems ;-), why did some of them (like Jan) added their comments so late....

Willem

[Uwe Zessin]

Shhh. Don't tell anybody, but the spare time can be used for other projects like writing programs to automate tasks to even get more free time ;-) In a previous life I was able to write a utility to assist us in maintaining databases.

[Ian Miller.]

occationally work does interfere with answering questions here :-)

I spend my spare time learning about VMS (time spent here included) and occationaly writing software (at home generally) - see
http://www.encompasserve.org/~miller/

[Jan van den Ende]

Uwe,

do you not read your profssional press, or is it only in the Netherlands that those papers are always complaining that System Managers do not have ANY time to do ANYTHING but installing new patches and new spamfilters and repairing new security holes??

Why, we are at the moment also planning to install some patches. Pwoei, so soon again, previous was October some!

And these mainly because of the SAN monitoring agent, which is wanted, but we banned the last version for generating 10 processes per second. And the new version requires some new patches.

But, like you, we do automate most of our work. That way we manage to find some time to automate more of our work, and for ITRC (well, except what I do at evenings & weekends, those generate sometimes some irritations with the rest of the family).

And, maybe, some old life shining through: I DO still hold a teacher's degree.

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Anton van Ruitenbeek]

The reason why I'm not always at ITRC is because I also do the contracts with HP. About 200 pages are windows systems ugh and the rest are VMS systems and network components. Even I do a lot of meetings with costumers and suppliers. O, yes I do also some systemmanagement of OpenVMS (two fingers ...).
So sorry I cant do more, but I do like the persons on ITRC.
Sorry Willem, Uwe etc. I'm not always as fast as (I find) I need to.

But yes, it's nice to see a Dutch on the top 3 ......

AvR

[Antoniov.]

Until I worked on vms I had time to read vms forum.
Since January I work outside my office in a new financial project based on SAP and windows 2k3 (sigh).
No vms, no time :-(

Antonio Vigliotti

[Robert Gezelter]

Jan,

Congratulations!

I would say more, but I have to get some work done before a speaking tour for the IEEE Computer Society and Encompass Canada. For details, see:
- May 18, 2005
http://www.rlgsc.com/ieee/calgary/2005-05/announce.html
- May 19, 2005
http://www.rlgsc.com/ieee/edmonton/2005-05/announce.html
http://www.rlgsc.com/encompass-canada/edmonton/2005-05/announce.html


- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com

[Uwe Zessin]

Jan,
my last work day as a full-time OpenVMS system manager was 30-SEP-1996 and I have not met many of this dying species during recent years.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

It must be the Duvel beer that gave him the energy. Keep up the good work Jan.

Wim (sober)

[Jeffery D. Urmann]

Jan,

Congradulations!!! And - Thank you. I very much appreciate your valued input. Your responses are always comprehensive, yet concise. You deserve every point.

But look out, I only have ~2800 points to catch you. I`ve been a VMS System`s Manager since 1-Jun-1984. But for the last ten years, I`ve been busy fighting Microsoft Windows fires, while our OpenVMS system just runs quietly in the background.

But, saddly, we too are phasing out good `ole OpenVMS. :( But I`m going to stay active here as time permits. I plan on obtaining a hobbiest`s license and run VMS on a MicroVAX and an Alpha at home. Should be fun.

Enjoy the podium while you can,

--Jeff

[Kris Clippeleyr]

Hi Jan,
Better late than never. Congrats, and up to the gold medal. (Ian & Uwe should keep silent for a couple of weeks)
Greetz, and CU in Nashua.
Kris (aka Qkcl)

[Antoniov.]

Jan,
now I inadvertently allow to have your rabbit!

Antonio Vigliotti