The world
is changing but many do not keep up with the changes. No managers in the
right mind would change those old COBOL programs as used flawlessly in
many banks, utilities... as they have been working fine and a bad code
(even the best coder like me would make a mistake after one or two
drinks during lunch) would cause the career of a manager.
They are reasons to upgrade:
1.
Obsolete machines. You may not be able to find maintenance for DEC
equipment (so are Wang, DG...), or software tool like PowerBuilder.
2. New applications or big changes. We have rewritten some applications due to large changes in a more-up-to-dated platform.
3. 1999 is the year we rewrote a lot of applications to kill two birds in one stone. That year we had programmers 120% employed.
4. New choices like cost reduction in outsourcing coding to India.
5.
Better saving. We can save a lot by using web applications in
maintenance. It is a time-consuming job to upgrade applications in 100
or so PCs.
6. Some new applications like Netflix cannot be
written in traditional way that requires you to load it from a disk
drive to your local PC.
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