http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2015/02/06/old-computers-state-government-agencies/22953063/
On Sat, 7 Feb 2015 19:50:10 -0500, scott wrote: >Which state agencies? Some out of work programmers would probably love >to do some meaningful work. > >On 02/07/2015 01:01 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler 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. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
