| Robert Wagner 2004-09-28, 3:55 am |
| On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:22:31 GMT, "William M. Klein"
<wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote:
>I need to correct my *partial* quote of RW's original statement. The full
>sentence was
>
>"Excepting two years during Y2K, I haven't touched a mainframe in 20 years."
>
>However, I hardly think that Y2K programming (remediation) would qualify one for
>commenting on *CURRENT* mainframe technology for doing credit card or insurance
>processing.
One year was Y2K remediation, the other was insurance processing.
During the intervening 14 years, there were advances in hardware
technology but little change in software where I worked.
IBM has done great things in the last ten years. They weren't in
evidence in the legacy shops I saw, which operated as though nothing
had changed in 20 years.
RW is not a legit Cobol subject .. unless I've been elected to some
Cobol Hall of Fame.
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