....and companies not looking to the future for requirements. There are probably a number of employees in the mid-40s that could be trained and let the newbies pick up the LUW support going forward.
Mitch -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ford <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Feb 7, 2015 2:48 pm Subject: Re: "ancient" cobol applications That's not the only cause....management being cheap, an issue I have seen for years...experienced people are worth their weight on 'gold' . On Saturday, February 7, 2015, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > local news just had item about ancient software at state agencies, 619 > major cobol applications developed in 80s ... frequent crashes&outages, > almost impossible to maintain or change ... in part because of the lack > of cobol programmers. The state is even considering setting up financial > incentive for schools to produce cobol programmers. > > -- > virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] <javascript:;> with the message: > INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
