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Re:IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Mi... by k_sze on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:14AM (#19511837)
Well, software folklore seems to say that COBOL graybeards get paid A LOT.
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Re:IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Mi... by Traubenfuchs on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:30AM (#19511962)
Does this hold for everything? Do we have any other examples besides the fabled COBOL developer?

Are application server / Java XML SOA graybeards also paid a lot?

My current technological focus are Spring Boot applications, seasoned with everything that comes with that: SQL, devops basics, etc. If Spring Boot is still a thing in 10 - 20 years I'd be extremely surprised.

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