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To: BelowTheCrowd who wrote (178795)	7/21/2004 3:54:30 PM
From: John Walliker	Respond to of 186894

Programming languages in 1968??? Don't forget FORTRAN for scientific programming - about as old as COBOL. John

To: BelowTheCrowd who wrote (178795)	7/21/2004 4:14:20 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 186894

the 70s is when the RDBMS area got underway with R* from IBM. THe 70s although a fairly lackluster period economically were great for some areas of technology that manifested themselves into huge businesses by the 90s.

To: BelowTheCrowd who wrote (178795)	7/22/2004 3:23:57 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Michael, RE: "What's your definition of "overdue?" When you see someone standing around for long periods of time, followed by hearing a few dozen choice curses. Repeatedly too. And when the status of what's wrong exceeds the cost to replace. Whether it's a replacement or upgrade, depends upon the department (accounting gets replacements, engineering gets upgrades.) Sounds like you are focused on large to mid-size firms. I think the smaller firms suffered austerity a bit more than the larger firms. RE: "As I'm currently looking for new projects, I'm in the unusual situation of being able to check out many companies." Let us know what you see in terms of upgrade and replacement cycles. RE: "Programming languages in 1968???" I actually didn't know. Had this vision of assembly (ugh). But a higher level language makes sense. Regards, Amy J