Wanted urgently: People who know COBOL so states can process unemployment claims (cnn.com)

I wonder how many of these institutions will take modernization projects more seriously now that their leaders see the cost of immense technical debt starting in front of them.

I emailed them and they said that they were getting tons of offers for help and they gave me an interest form to give my details. The interest form even asked if you wanted to be compensated for your work, so it reads like they are not hurting for help all that much

> "There'll be lots of postmortems and one of them on our list will be how did we get here where we literally needed COBOL programmers?"

Easy. It wasn't a priority. "Why should we give you money to upgrade when the systems work just fine?"