The latter is often a problem in companies with a centralized programming dept. It certainly was at the last end-user company I worked for (who shall remain nameless).
The courts brought the processing and programming in-house. She says she saved $500K but also says she had to hire her own programers; I wonder if those costs were included. They kept the old COBOL programs, just reworked to run on Windows, so they presumably have COBOL progammers on her staff to maintain them, as well as other programmers for the new apps.
They probably could have brought all of that inhouse on a small IBM zSeries, no conversion, doing the new apps under USS or Linux or maybe keeping them on CICS. From everything I read, the cost may well have been less.
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