I’ve recently started working in a company that uses old tech, and there is a minor interest from me to actually follow the COBOL onboarding. It seems like a pretty cool language construct to know, alongside my years of OOP experiences with stuff like C# and Java.
And there are still courses being offered, as it’s far from eradicated (although everyone wants it gone).
It’s not a dead language. And while I don’t care much for it, only move if it makes sense. The reason the company I worked with moved, was because the servers were getting very costly to keep up, and the parts were becoming rarer. So they were concerned they might be in a situation where they’d be unable to work for up to three weeks. And they had already done some work moving several of their systems and apps to C# and virtual servers. And it still took years in order to do it with minimal disruption to business operations.
But since the Department of dipshit doesn’t actually care about disrupting services that affect the working people, I bet they’ll do it and be like, oops, our bad, Biden made us do it.
As someone who was part of a team that moved a company off of a mainframe into the modern world of technology (about ten years ago). It takes years.
I guarantee that this is going to go badly. It’s going to take much longer than they think. And it’s going to be very expensive.
But I also guarantee that they don’t care. It seems they’re more than happy to weaken the US in pursuit of profit and to help Putin for some reason.
I’ve recently started working in a company that uses old tech, and there is a minor interest from me to actually follow the COBOL onboarding. It seems like a pretty cool language construct to know, alongside my years of OOP experiences with stuff like C# and Java.
And there are still courses being offered, as it’s far from eradicated (although everyone wants it gone).
It’s not a dead language. And while I don’t care much for it, only move if it makes sense. The reason the company I worked with moved, was because the servers were getting very costly to keep up, and the parts were becoming rarer. So they were concerned they might be in a situation where they’d be unable to work for up to three weeks. And they had already done some work moving several of their systems and apps to C# and virtual servers. And it still took years in order to do it with minimal disruption to business operations.
But since the Department of dipshit doesn’t actually care about disrupting services that affect the working people, I bet they’ll do it and be like, oops, our bad, Biden made us do it.