Got Legacy?

Today MAKE brings you the inspirational story of COREY the robot. Click HERE to read the entire book! Suitable for children and adults alike.

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Thanks to our friends at Micro Focus for THE COBOLATOR video, which they shot to celebrate 50 years of COBOL.

We at MAKE spend all of our time helping customers who are sick of their legacy systems and the lack of flexibility they bring. These mainframe applications cost a lot of companies massive amounts of money. And the problem is not COBOL per se, although 50 years of building software systems has actually resulted in some more suitable programming languages, the problem is legacy systems misaligned with the business they are supposed to be supporting. Running that system on Unix, or Windows, or the Cloud, will not help you with that.

And that’s why you need… Agile COBOL!

Enjoy:

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Great introduction video to the Wang Freestyle:

• “First, I turn it into a piece of paper”
• “Get it together guys, get it together”
• “Notice that you can kinda read them”
• “This shows me that this file is stapled together, so I grab my ‘un-stapler’”

The Wang Freestyle cost 1.2 M USD in 1990 and included a phone system which you could not use to make calls, only annotate photographs of files.

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Thanks to our friends at MicroFocus for this:

So what skills would THE COBOLATOR have:

• Hunt down executives and force them write copy module code?
• Bill, by force, monthly fees for a platform he no longer intend to support or develop?
• Talk you into moving your legacy mess on UNIX or Windows and make you believe it is modernization?
• Duck every time you ask for a change to the system?
• Convince you lower case is an invention by the devil, and UNICODE its evil twin?
• Battle THE GOVERNATOR and stop him from paying his employees?

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