• Half of the IRS' servers still run doomed Windows Server 2003 as well as 1300 Windows XP machines th
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[QUOTE=proboardslol;48904869]And it's written in fucking COBOL. If you know COBOL I think the IRS pays a buttload of money[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;48905892]The IRS, the publicly funded government organization that collects money from citizens that the government needs to operate, has been getting its budget slashed and can't actually pay part of their workforce for things like implementing new tax codes.[/QUOTE] Their budget really is terrible. Tax clerks are paid $10-15/hr but IT people are paid $50/hr starting, often more in some locations (I know a few positions are open for IT specialists, not even managers, that run $70+/hr). I toyed with the idea of working for them as a clerk but you can make 2-3x as much working for basically any other government agency as an accountant.
And here I thought the fact that every "C++ programmer" in the company I work for programs in "c with the class keyword" more than C++ was bad. This is a whole new level of crazy though. Talk about outdated and unsafe... in such a huge important company! Not too surprising though, the IT people who run these things are under the assumption that "if its broke dont fix it". Which makes sense, except: 1. Good luck hiring anyone today that can actually develop for your system 2. Good luck ever fixing/maintaining/doing anything ever when the one guy who wrote that crap code 40 years ago that kept the whole system going dies. 3. That rather large expenditure to upgrade/update everything was a terrible idea! The company dying when all the outdated barely functioning code/systems die in 10 years is much better! /sarchasm
[QUOTE=Levelog;48907411]You do when they lost all support and are a security risk. This year hasn't exactly proven a great track record with the government and digital security.[/QUOTE] Well.. That isn't entirely true. You can pay for support specially as the government does this sort of thing a lot.
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