Ya know... It's crap and FUD like this that makes my blood boil!!! COBOL, an antique language, not taught anymore and difficult to maintain.
Where do I start? How about I offer to go in there, analyze the situation, come up with a solution that would work with their existing system, write it all myself and then charge them only a few hundred grand? Idiots! On Tue Aug 5 14:38 , 'McKown, John' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/1132588.html > > >The massive pay cut would exhaust the state's antiquated payroll system, >which is built on a Vietnam-era computer language so outdated that many >college students don't even bother to learn it anymore. > >... > >The state payroll system is based on the COBOL, or Common Business >Oriented Language, programming language - a code first introduced in >1959 and popularized in the 1960s and 1970s. > >"COBOL programmers are hard to come by these days," said Fred Forrer, >the Sacramento-based CEO of MGT of America, a public-sector consulting >firm. "It's certainly not a language that is taught. Oftentimes, you >have to rely on retired annuitants to come back and help maintain the >system until you're able to find a replacement." > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
