Re: Question: How will the Year 2000 bug impact your work?

jdr@crl.com (Jon Roland) wrote: >I have had several preliminary meetings with prospective clients who have serious >Y2K problems, most of them on mainframes running COBOL or RPG apps. So far all my >analyses indicate that it would be far less expensive to re-write the entire apps >in a modern 4GL like Progress and run the app in a modern client-server >environment, than to try to fix the present code. Few of the apps really require a >mainframe, although in those few cases the mainframe could continue to be used as >a data server. I'd agree but for one small point. Many sites have out of date documentation if they haven't lost it entirely, and often have no written record of changes since the system was implemented. As a result a rewrite would first involve recreating/updating the spec from the code and *this* is can be sufficiently expensive to make the rewrite quite unattractive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Gregorie |Logica UK Ltd Gregorie@logica.com |All opinions expressed are solely those +44 (0171) 637 9111 |of the author and not of Logica ----------------------------------------------------------------------