begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:16:16AM -0800: > [snip] > The point, as we all know, is that a working system is far too valuable, > and far to expensive to reengineer, for an enterprise to dink with it just > because M$ wants to add to their bottom line.
I've seen 'em running the DOS app in M$Windows ; and I've started to see the DOS app replaced with M$Windows applications... and the frequency of "I can't help you, the computer is down" keeps going up. Most of the banks seem to be running a Visual Basic front-end these days, as has my Doctor's office. The change seems to have been imposed from above. > I recall in the late 90s consulting with a private phone carrier in > Atlanta that had all their switching stations operating in MSDOS with a > propriatary network and interrupt servicing extension. Sure, it was a > kluge, but it was a _working_ kluge, and they didn't dare touch it. Phone carriers tend to be worried about keeping things working, it seems. -- This seems like an ideal place for Linux or *BSD. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
