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German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm in two minds about that. One the one hand, yes, of course - as all the original COBOL folks die off, the skills will be even rarer and thus worth more.

On the other hand, if we keep propping up old shit, the businesses will keep relying on it and it'll be even more painful when they do eventually get forced to migrate off it.

On the other other hand, we know it works, and we don't want to migrate everything into a series of Electron apps just because that's popular at the moment.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Part of the problem is the cost of moving off it. Some companies simply can't pay what that would cost, and that's before you consider the risk.

Tough spot to be in.