Igor Yasno wrote:

> In a message dated 97-10-01 18:07:14 EDT, Stan writes:
>
> << One of the job postings is from IBM!...
>
>     Push your HP3000 COBOL skills to the limit. Depending on
>     your level of experience and drive to achieve, you could be
>     (or become) a team leader for high-profile distribution
>     application projects.
>
>     Desired Skills:  * COBOL * Consulting * HP3000  >>
>
> More than one of our HP/3000 customers had outsourced their Y2K (and
> other)
> projects to IBM Global Services organization. This could be one of
> their ads.

I don't know how IBM Global Services is performing their Y2K changes,
but I do know how EDS (Dallas) is trying to do it.

Caveat emptor.

My current employer outsourced to EDS for Y2K for both the IBM and HP
sides....with all IBM'ers doing the changes.  They ported the source
code over to a PC product and tried to change and compile it.  They
changed it alright.  But they couldn't compile it <g>.  When they
finally returned the code for our review on the HP 3000, it wouldn't
even compile clean. They also tried to change a FORMSPEC file on the
PC.  The laughs just keep coming.

Last week, they finally found an HP programmer to come in and take over.
With as much trouble as they had finding an available experience HP
person, he said that he was getting some pretty big $$$.  Good news for
us I'm hoping.