I had a brief encounter (thanks god) with NY State department of finance IT. 40 State employees and 60 hired guns (h1) trying to re-engineer state tax system. After four years and who knows how many millions wasted (100+) the effort was abandoned by a new governor. The system still relies on UNIVAX (that's 50s technology), but the fun part is - it was re-engineered as Cobol, mostly batch. They used all the right oo lingo, but applied it to Cobol. Just broke all Cobol programs to small pieces and named them components. No kidding. I was fired when started making nasty remarks of their architects. B.T.W. those were making $150+ per hr. I guess, how much of it was for kick-backs?
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I had a brief encounter (thanks god) with NY State department of finance IT. 40 State employees and 60 hired guns (h1) trying to re-engineer state tax system. After four years and who knows how many millions wasted (100+) the effort was abandoned by a new governor. The system still relies on UNIVAX (that's 50s technology), but the fun part is - it was re-engineered as Cobol, mostly batch. They used all the right oo lingo, but applied it to Cobol. Just broke all Cobol programs to small pieces and named them components. No kidding. I was fired when started making nasty remarks of their architects. B.T.W. those were making $150+ per hr. I guess, how much of it was for kick-backs? B29EG.