[Glenn]

Old white guys with bad polyester pants maintaining crappy old mainframe code are sitting ducks for cost reductions.

Could you be anymore insulting? I'm 50 and I'd kick your ass on the keyboard of your choosing. Your perceptions are bigotry. You're as bad as Sun or anyone else who think engineers have a "shelf life".

Moron.

[The Duke]

Hey Glenn ... don't look now but I think your polyester is showing! *G*

Seriously, I'm one of those oldsters myself, except the old code I wrote is what's gonna be steering those cruise missiles into downtown Baghdad this weekend! (And guiding those smart bombs).

[billorites]

Yessiree us old-timers have to stick together on this.

Someday FORTRAN and COBOL will be back and then who'll be laughing.

Dagnabbit.

[eno_]

Sorry, but software has a shelf-life. "Dusty deck" systems are a failure of IT management to figure out when to replace old stuff: every year it is "cheaper" to keep paying extortionate maintenence fees and not recruit or retrain, until it turns out you are paying $2M/year for something that could be reimplemented for $200k to run on a $1000 server. You can't swing a cat without hitting a dozen IT departments where this is true.

[grania]

I thought it was us over-50s who rejected polyester!! Can't wait to hear the kids when they start losing their jobs, too.

[junta]

You use your keyboard, I should like a crack at the boy with my fists and feet.

[clamper1797]

Could you be anymore insulting? I'm 50 and I'd kick your ass on the keyboard of your choosing. Your perceptions are bigotry. You're as bad as Sun or anyone else who think engineers have a "shelf life".

Moron.

I'LL SECOND THAT !!!!