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by phoehne 5y ago
One thing I've learned over the years is how sales people are rewarded is important to the products a company decides to sell. It actually drives the product mix and constrains their choices about new markets or new approaches. Enter
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by phoehne 5y ago
What they were referring to were ActiveX controls, Java applets, dynamically downloaded JAR files like on Sun's Java browser, etc. Like rollerblading, it was the unfortunate trend of a bygone era. And yes, it was a ridiculous term.
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by phoehne 5y ago
Have you ever worked with someone in information security, only to find out they're checking off features but don't know what they're doing? Has it been scanned by this piece of software (which produces 832 fans positives) a
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by phoehne 5y ago
Yes. I had to learn to read COBOL using VSAM to port reports to a Cognos product and Oracle. One of the COBOL devs pulled me aside one day after we were happy to get one of the reports down to a few minutes. (I'll gladly admit that
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by phoehne 5y ago
I was part of a team that wrote a paper for a customer on replacing 5 million lines of legacy COBOL code with either hand-written or machine-generated Java for a major system. The cost was in the mid 9 figures.
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by phoehne 5y ago
The thing is, you solved a very narrow problem to which there is already a solution (and has been) on the mainframe for 30+ years (MQ). The real problem is that in that COBOL code is 50 years of business rules smeared across millions of li
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by phoehne 5y ago
4 unpopular opinions from an old: 1) There's a point to education. Decide what you're going to do and then prepare for it. Most likely you will need to get a job that either does something for someone because it's specializ