27 May
2016
27 May
'16
7:01 p.m.
On 27 May 2016 at 19:38, Alan Bourke alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
It's not the fact that it's an old system per se, it's an old system for which spare parts and people with the relevant skills to maintain it are rapidly disappearing.
10 years ago I was working for TicketMaster and the whole backend was running on VAX hardware. I'm talking about the whole infrastructure (web, telephone etc) interfacing with the VAX's.
Spare parts came from eBay. When I left they were planning to use emulators to replace the aging hardware.
This was TM UK but I know TM USA was similar. The place was a nightmare. Accounts used dozens of FoxBASE (yep!) programs that had obviously been hacked together by a non-programmer some decades before.
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Paul