Modernization of mainframe COBOL is like hopping off of your bicycle and jumping onto a Harley Davidson motorcycle,” Hinshaw told The Verge. “That’s the type of improvement that you’re going to find.”
That's sort of like saying that you're hopping off COBOL and onto interpreted BASIC... Sorry, motorcycle humor...
IT systems always get the short-end of the stick when it comes to funding.
That is so true. Even the the CIO of my old company called IT a "cost center." When we had a disaster, we were tasked with ensuring that we'd never have that type of downtime again. When we submitted a decent plan, well, reliability was just too expensive. The plan kept getting pared back over and over until we just kept limping along on the old equipment. A Fortune 50 company using older Unix workstations as servers since no one would pay to update them. There were some real servers, but not all that were needed, and some of them were antiques themselves.
That's sort of like saying that you're hopping off COBOL and onto interpreted BASIC... Sorry, motorcycle humor...
That is so true. Even the the CIO of my old company called IT a "cost center." When we had a disaster, we were tasked with ensuring that we'd never have that type of downtime again. When we submitted a decent plan, well, reliability was just too expensive. The plan kept getting pared back over and over until we just kept limping along on the old equipment. A Fortune 50 company using older Unix workstations as servers since no one would pay to update them. There were some real servers, but not all that were needed, and some of them were antiques themselves.