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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Sipples) writes: > Last week I met a customer that, in round numbers, has a decision > whether to spend about $50 million to restructure their application > code or about $1 billion to scrap the whole thing and rewrite from > scratch (with high risk). They don't have one billion dollars. > Fortunately the $50 million -- less than two bucks per line -- should > result in code that's easy to enhance and to test, well documented, > accessible (through new channels), high performance, and business > functional. It happens to be COBOL. recent posts involving two different kinds of experiences ... one involving ROUTES from a (mainframe) airline res. system (where we did do a rewrite from scratch) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#24 Bidirectional Binary Self-Joins http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#25 Bidirectional Binary Self-Joins http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#26 Bidirectional Binary Self-Joins and different kind of scenario/result involving a very large (mainframe) cobol application http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#47 Is computer history taught now? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#48 Is computer history taught now? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007f.html#51 Is computer history taught now? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
