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>One of the companies I worked for used an applet to load data from a webapp and insert it into an Access 1.0 DB file in the users hard drive...After exporting

>One of the companies I worked for used an applet to load data from a webapp and insert it into an Access 1.0 DB file in the users hard drive...After exporting the data, the user would have to run a really old gov't program (to which the Access DB file belonged) to upload the data to a legacy server, over X.25 (click an icon on the desktop).... > How would you address this situation? Well, first I would sign up for a github account. You know steps two and three.

logicallee 11y ago
I just noticed this got downvoted. What I meant is that in a situation like that it's really time to polish your github and linkedin, so you can quickly get a different job. If it's a fragile legacy system with Access 1.0 (!) and a bunch of external requirements you aren't allowed to touch, how much of a change can you make?