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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (36389)	11/16/1998 11:06:00 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

MB, >>>but the software programs that many cos. sell are designed to pinpoint where you have Y2K problems so you don't have to rewrite every line.<<< Don't beleive it. There is no magic bullet. Every LOC has to be examined either by a human (at up to $2 or $3 per LOC) or by questionable claims for fully automatic remediation programs for anywhere from .50 to $1.00 per LOC (however non of these companies can provide reputable customers that can attest to these wonders). Of course some companies will take a chance by taking a few short cuts. But banks, insurance companies, and other large organizations can not afford to take these chances. In any case, whether anything happens to these programs or not when we go into the next century, Cobol programmers by and large will have to learn a new programming language. Most of these Cobol programs will be rewritten in another language and made easier to use - probably on another platform. This complete migration does not have to be completed or even started by the year 2000. But it will have to be done. These systems were not created all in year and they will not all die in one year The most likely platform, IMHO, for the rewriting of programs on old legacy systems, and the creation of new systems is onto a IA64 platform. Mary