My family company electronics distribution covering 18 states in the centeral US...system was written in the late 80's and has been continually modified one of the most stable invintory management systems for our industry over 50% of the companys that started with this system in the 80's/90's are still running it...designed for distirbution logistics and invintory management by SESCOR on Unix platform...we have performed many modifications and a Linux platform transfer over the years...looking at new systems but will probably be a year or two before we get one implimented

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Wow, I thought that only a HUGE insurance company would still be on a Cobol based system. (and I used to work at Met Life in the late 80's )

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there are actually quite a few banks still running Z-OS, AS400 mainframes with apps programmed in Cobol. I'm surprised a lot of those survived Y2K but what do I know.. LOL

I'm surprised that they survived y2k as well.... that's why i said it

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Also over a hundred heavy equipment dealers, all on AS400s with a legacy system written in Cobol. Yes, finding programmers is hard. I wasn't involved then, but I heard that Y2K was tough with that application too.

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Retired:
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2004 Z4 3.0 Premium, Sport, SMG, Maldives Blue

no doubt. I was heavily involved in my old company's Y2K conversion. (damn that was a long time ago!!) At the time it wasn't really hard, just hard to FIND the people who could do it.. lost art if you know what I mean.

Exactly the problem the fix was not a big issue just the people with the skills to change what needed to be fixed

Also AT&T still uses cobol systems my Uncle is a cobol programmer currently his job consists of teaching new young programmers Cobol to support frame relay systems

Our program may be dated but I can honsetly say we have not had any problems with this system we update around the core program about every six months (support of IP based printing etc) and upgrade to new servers every two years this system also interfaces with our Apache webserver and two SQL servers to provide active invintory and ordering capabilities to our customers...Using ICE.TCP to interface with the system from workstations. Looking at SAP or Citrix solutions for our system change...anyone have insight on these?

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well, I got everything on our SUS server configured to push the updates for exchange 2003, win xp, and win 2003. Outlook I will do some research on.

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Outlook takes it's time from the OS.

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