Valleywag (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Last week — it's amazing how many tech workers missed it — California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger "terminated" (sigh) 10,000 state employees and cut another 200,000 to the state... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
UMBC eBiquity (Free subscription) | yesterday
Forget becoming a Pythonista or learning how to exploit the Semantic Web in social networking applications. Learn Cobol. From today’s New York Times (In California, Retro-Tech Complicates Budget Woes), comes this note on how to avoid being an obsolete geek: be a Cobol hacker. The context is an emergency plan that California Governor Arnold [...]
Dynamics of Cats (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fascinating article on slashdot about why California can't cut wage payroll employees to fed minimum wage, because their finacial system is a COBOL legacy system Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
AterSlash (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
It’s a lot easier to just fire them with the software is what they are telling us.Seriously if California is in a budget crisis how will they pay firefighters and hospital staff? You can pay everyone full wage now and in 10 months stop paying EVERYONE entirely.In a business with this kind of budget problem you simply lay people off.
CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems (Free subscription) | yesterday
beezzie writes “Last week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered a pay cut, to minimum wage of $6.55/hr,, for 200,000 state workers because a state budget hadn’t been approved yet. The state controller, who has opposed the pay cut on principle and legal grounds, now says the pay cut isn’t even feasible because the state’s payroll [...]
TechBlogger (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
beezzie writes “Last week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered a pay cut, to minimum wage of $6.55/hr,, for 200,000 state workers because a state budget hadn’t been approved yet. The state controller, who has opposed the pay cut on principle and legal grounds, now says the pay cut isn’t even feasible because the state’s payroll [...]
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
So claims California State Controller John Chiang who says he will refuse to implement temporary pay cuts ordered by Gov. Schwarzenegger, but that he couldn’t do them anyway because the payroll system is a 70’s fossil written in COBOL and any such changes would take months to implement. In a ironic twist, some formerly retired state [...]
IT-Analysis.com (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Things come full circle and as the focus of systems development moves towards automating busines process, there's again a need for a business-friendly procedural coding language something like COBOL.... [Read More...]
Advice Line by Bob Lewis (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
One reader's suggestion: Connect COBOL to Web 2.0, and pay programmers more to support it. READ MORE
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, will sponsor a Webinar Tuesday, August 12, at 11 am EDT to
SEO BlackHat: Black Hat SEO Blog (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
The Search Engine Startup Cuil (Pronounced "Cool") is having a little difficulty finding Cobol.
Service Oriented Enterprise (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Programming COBOL on the mainframe was the preferred platform of the generation before me. Don't get me wrong, I did my fair share. I did it, but I remember thinking that it was "my fathers platform". I was a PC guy. When it was time to develop some new piece of software, the PC and personal OS was my starting point. I programmed in 14 different languages mostly client/server or monolithic clients...
Cable TV Promotions (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
cobol Describes their RM/ COBOL , as well as the Relativity COBOL data access product, the Cobol -WOW GUI application builder and other COBOL application development tools. Micro Focus - Micro Focus welcomes its newest family members IBM Software - COBOL Compilers IBM VisualAge delivers innovative and open solutions to professional programmers to rapidly exploit network middleware while developing,...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Pity the poor IT managers. They’re expected to know what their end-users want need, even if their end-users can’t articulate it themselves. They’re under constant pressure to develop new skills (like AJAX) while maintaining old ones (COBOL, anyone?), and to not only maintain line-of-business apps but jazz them up to [...]
Ugh!!'s Greymatter Honeypot (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
served by picapp.com “Enterprises must learn how to be less dependent on the shrinking number of folks who are well versed in the applications running the business like COBOL, PowerBuilder, and Oracle Forms,” … “Most CIOs won’t admit it, but not only do many of them not know how these applications work, they don’t know [...]
