Re: *** ADMIN: Ok, one more time, a POLL on www.midrange.com

> Have you ever tried to cost justify a major convert and test project on
> hundreds of programs on the basis of "if we ever go in to change this code
> again, we'll save money then"?  Management always comes back with "Well,
> what other benefit is there in it?  Will the users see any changes?"  "Well,
> no, not unless we break something.  But that's why we need all this time to
> test it."  "And you won't be able to do anything else while you're working
> on it?"  "Well, no, but we'll make it all up later with our improved
> productivity."

yeah, that's kinda like us.  only i'm also the management!  so the approach 
we've
taken is to convert programs as they are modified.  and the y2k has given us
reason to do a bunch of them...

but my frugal side hates to pay  money to change a program that hasn't been used
in years, and may never be used again.

NJ

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