Ha ha ha.....  I did all of that in the early 1980's, then again in the early 
1990's.  Both companies were a manufacturing company.

Both cases took "month-end" from 5 days to 5 hours.  <g>

Matthew

On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 21:10:24 +0000, Pesce, Andy <[email protected]> wrote:

>That article is just full of all the right buzzwords: "vintage programming 
>language called COBOL",
>"aging programming language known as COBOL" and of course my favorite  "L E G 
>A C Y   S Y S T E M S"........
>
>
>That reminds me of the IBM commercial, where there are all these newbies 
>talking about having a globe on the screen that they can rotate,
>and things fly across the screen.
>
>Then you have a business guy that states:   I need a customer to order a part, 
>it needs to interface with my inventory, then ship it through logistics,
>then take payment through my bank and run it through my GL showing it in my 
>accounting system so I can see the P&L.
>
>The newbies then look at each other and say, "We don't know how to do 
>that!".......
>

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