[LINK] Schwarzenegger pay plans thwarted by COBOL

[Roger Clarke]

At 16:40 +1000 7/8/08, David Boxall wrote:
><http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2223408/schwarzenegger-pay-plans-cobol>
>>  State Controller John Chiang told the Senate Committee on Governmental
>>  Organization that this was impossible as the payroll system was
>>  written 30 years ago in COBOL and there weren't enough programmers to
>>  do the job.

For the right level of pay, I'd be *delighted* to drop all this 
strategy, policy and advocacy stuff I do, and dust off my COBOL 
skills!!

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