While we were building a web frontend on top of an insurance system written in Cobol running on a mainframe, another team was trying to port that Cobol to Java.

While we were building a web frontend on top of an insurance system written in Cobol running on a mainframe, another team was trying to port that Cobol to Java. I often talked to those guys as we were in the same IT basement and indeed, they were to port it and 'and some things'. That project failed while ours is still running on that Cobol system.