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To: markomalley

IOW, it’s in COBOL, and no one wants to or has learned how to hack it? They want a phone app...

2 posted on 05/14/2014 4:59:54 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)

To: Smokin' Joe

I think the company that did the first pass on healthcare.gov is available. The VA should dial up Michelle Obama for the “right” contacts.

3 posted on 05/14/2014 5:12:24 AM PDT by glorgau

To: Smokin' Joe

IOW, it’s in COBOL, and no one wants to or has learned how to hack it?

They deployed a mainframe-based system, using COBOL, in 1995?

COBOL was considered a "legacy" system a decade earlier.

4 posted on 05/14/2014 5:31:47 AM PDT by justlurking (tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)

To: Smokin' Joe

Yep. Archaic now, but difficult to hack. But they want a modern system, meaning some of us old folks will be robbed blind.

6 posted on 05/14/2014 5:39:41 AM PDT by afsnco

To: Smokin' Joe

Yeah... odd that. Since COBOL still acounts for a huge majoraty of account code out there.

Maybe because it was written for accounting? Naw... can’t be that... right?

So they’ll replace it with a system that costs 10x to build and 100x to maintain. One has to love... “Progress”.

12 posted on 05/14/2014 6:29:38 AM PDT by Freeport (The proper application of high explosives will remove all obstacles.)

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