I worked at a large import export firm based out of Seattle a decade ago. All of their internal and external accounting ultimately relied on COBOL as well.
A single guy maintained it all… he also wrote it all, originally. Got back from the Vietnam war, learned COBOL with his GI Bill, went to work for this company, stayed for his whole life.
He kept telling the board that they needed to find a replacement, or three, for him, when he retired.
They did not, at least not before he retired, and I left several months later due to every system I relied on to do my work breaking down after he left.
I worked at a large import export firm based out of Seattle a decade ago. All of their internal and external accounting ultimately relied on COBOL as well.
A single guy maintained it all… he also wrote it all, originally. Got back from the Vietnam war, learned COBOL with his GI Bill, went to work for this company, stayed for his whole life.
He kept telling the board that they needed to find a replacement, or three, for him, when he retired.
They did not, at least not before he retired, and I left several months later due to every system I relied on to do my work breaking down after he left.