so have i. this is the technology community, after all. for a couple years i worked for a major cruise line and each ship had an AS400 on board. so I’m familiar with mainframes, and sure they are un-removable for a number of reasons. but that statement was stupid
I worked at a large import export firm based out of Seattle a decade ago. All of their internal and external accounting ultimately relied on COBOL as well.
A single guy maintained it all… he also wrote it all, originally. Got back from the Vietnam war, learned COBOL with his GI Bill, went to work for this company, stayed for his whole life.
He kept telling the board that they needed to find a replacement, or three, for him, when he retired.
They did not, at least not before he retired, and I left several months later due to every system I relied on to do my work breaking down after he left.
yeah i work in tech (at a bank rn) and the mainframes are hilarious. a constant source of downtime, and insanely overpriced hardware to boot.
literally i can’t think of any downtime our services have had in the last six months that wasn’t caused by the mainframe’s downtime. this is dozens of cases.
but they will basically never be replaced. maybe in 100 years? ha
I worked in primary metals for a while, core business applications still ran on mainframes, they had a project to move some of them to SAP that apparently had the same timelines as nuclear fusion (perpetually x years away).
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ok this article was a hilarious shit show. full of gems like
ffs
if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. I’ve worked plenty of private sector jobs where they use COBOL somewhere in the company
so have i. this is the technology community, after all. for a couple years i worked for a major cruise line and each ship had an AS400 on board. so I’m familiar with mainframes, and sure they are un-removable for a number of reasons. but that statement was stupid
I’ve had conversations with people who work in various gov sectors and you’d be very amused. Social security and the IRS aren’t that much better.
I worked at a large import export firm based out of Seattle a decade ago. All of their internal and external accounting ultimately relied on COBOL as well.
A single guy maintained it all… he also wrote it all, originally. Got back from the Vietnam war, learned COBOL with his GI Bill, went to work for this company, stayed for his whole life.
He kept telling the board that they needed to find a replacement, or three, for him, when he retired.
They did not, at least not before he retired, and I left several months later due to every system I relied on to do my work breaking down after he left.
Gotta love a single point of failure where that point itself sounded the alarm.
yeah i work in tech (at a bank rn) and the mainframes are hilarious. a constant source of downtime, and insanely overpriced hardware to boot.
literally i can’t think of any downtime our services have had in the last six months that wasn’t caused by the mainframe’s downtime. this is dozens of cases.
but they will basically never be replaced. maybe in 100 years? ha
I worked in primary metals for a while, core business applications still ran on mainframes, they had a project to move some of them to SAP that apparently had the same timelines as nuclear fusion (perpetually x years away).