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Re:Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride in... by FussyZeus on Thursday October 04, 2018 @02:59PM (#18142589)
Except for the detail that COBOL programmers are outrageously hard to find, thusly expensive, and are only continuing to get harder to find and more expensive.
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Re:Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride in... by pjmlp on Thursday October 04, 2018 @04:42PM (#18143492)
Except that it still cheaper to pay a pile of bucks to IBM and Unisys to keep those systems running than re-write them.

Which by itself shows how much money such re-write would eventually cost.

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