Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core...

jelloeater85@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• r00ty@kbin.life ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The scripting in Excel is VBA, which is VB6. So, basically what I'm saying is that you can have both!

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  • baked_tea@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In .xls … no thanks

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• droans@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My old company had a revenue system built in-house that only could run on MS-DOS. We needed a VM just to use it.

  I left that company in 2019 and they were still using it.

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  • banneryear1868@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To me its amazing they’ve been able to use the same system for that long, it must cost almost nothing to run vs a “proper” system. Kind of assuming it wasn’t a constant headache cause then it would be stupid to keep it around.

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    • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Migration is expensive and time consuming so wouldn’t be surprised if laziness played a major role in that even if its obviously a problem

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      • banneryear1868@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s true and I’ve seen this thing a lot to the point people were buying assorted spare parts for a refrigerator sized server circa 1998 almost 20 years later while the entire business was complaining about how slow it was for a majority of those years. Our data center dates back to the 80s so there’s some great artifacts still lurking around.

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    • droans@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh it absolutely did not work properly. We lost a $300M lawsuit because the system would bill clients wrong.

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      • banneryear1868@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        rofl that’s kind of amazing then. I’m used to legacy stuff that nobody wants to touch because it’s functioning how it’s supposed to.

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My first internship was with a company on IBM RPG. My parents were literally not born when that system came out. We had to use telnet to talk to it. I am sure they are still on it. Most people didn’t even use it, they had a system of paper notebooks.

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• stockRot@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The software my company makes still uses VB5 for the front end 🙃

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  • jelloeater85@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🍻🫗

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