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!"....... > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
