Scott:
I am far from an expert in these areas but here are some thoughts.
From what little I have seen here in IL here are some guesses:
1. Budgets are not only bare bones but are downright disgraceful.
Year after year the budgets are FROZEN and that means doing less with
no new equipment. The 3270's are cheap shells and are filthy due to
smoking in most cases they aren't 3270's at all but are cheaply made
replacements.
2. Politicians regularly rob peter to pocket the money in another
budget leaving zero dollars for replacements.
3. Politicians stealing the money and pocketing it.
4. no one wants to raise taxes to pay for anything so equipment
deteriates and the same goes for wages.
5. Working for the state is a dead end job money wise.
ANd on and on....
Ed
On Feb 7, 2015, at 6:50 PM, 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.
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