Boy, this is familiar
where, oh where have I heard this story before?
Amazingly, once the “Windows conversion” project was over, their software actually worked in Windows. It looked terrible and ran incredibly slow, but it worked. The company was able to keep its entire floor of COBOL programmers working on the System/3-COBOL-translated-to-C-rendered-in-Windows application and things have remained the same ever since. After all, they found a formula that worked and there was no need to change it.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:10 pm
I saw this too. Without business specifics, I was afraid to really pile on, but year it seems likely it was a huge mess.