lör 2020-04-04 klockan 21:47 -0700 skrev Fred Cisin via cctalk: > On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Jeffrey Brace via cctalk wrote: > > > https://josephsteinberg.com/covid-19-response-new-jersey-urgently-needs-cobol-programmers-yes-you-read-that-correctly/ > > In December 1999, they were looking for COBOL programmers. > > They were told to update their software. > > Now, 20 years later, they are looking for COBOL programmers, to start > the > update project. >
To be fair, in this case updating your software means: throw out the baby with the water build a completely new IT infrastructure with everything and expect things to work badly the next 5-8 years.... long enough to hinder/(be a millstone around) the governor's re- election campagin and then in 15 years, be prepared to redo.... Pundits like this steinberg is right and wrong - they doesn't acknowledge how expensive new fangled information technology is.
