Charles Mills wrote:
The current LE "COBOL Migration" manual lists a fair amount of analysis and
work to determine and or provide for upward compatibility. I believe them.
When a customer has hundreds of "not recently touched" business-critical
programs, and no one who knows how they work, and no budget for conversion,
and typical corporate tolerance for risk (i.e., near zero) it is a HUGE
obstacle, and there is no reasoning it away, I fear.
Charles
Typical management approach these days:
* gotta' make the change to keep support
* never paid to keep people trained
* won't pay to make the change
* don't take any risk
* Why can't we just wish the problem away?
Ya' gotta' spend money sometime, somehow. Today's
managers are paying the price for yesterday's
managers being cheap. Now the price is higher
but the "cheap" mentality lingers. Wait! Did I
say "cheap"? I meant "free"!
----
Reflecting a little more carefully on your second paragraph,
I got to wondering, what exactly is a HUGE obstacle, and
what is this thing an obstacle to? You are trying to say
something is preventing a customer from doing something.
I guess you're saying cost is the obstacle to conversion
Then, "there is no reasoning it away". Excuse me? What are
you trying to say? Let's see: you cannot reason the
obstacle away. Is that it? What does it mean to "reason
away" anything? I thought I understood the gist of your
post but now I guess I don't.
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock
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