Who here works in the IT Industry?

[Cable God]

I do. I am a Sys Admin for a software company. What do you do?

 

[Czar]

Sysadmin and Webmaster for a software company

 

[Cable God]

coolness me too

 

[DaBoneHead]

Senior System Engineer for a medium sized telco... (3 mil customers).

Specialization, Change Control and "e" to Legacy integration... Basically, coupling Java based technologies to COBOL/RPG systems.

 

[Cable God]

eeeeeeewwwwwwww, COBOL, I remember those days :disgust:

 

[kassy]

Before becoming a transplant, I worked as a tech for EDS. Now I 'play' while waiting for my work permit

 

[IBhacknU]

In my past life I was Al Gore

 

[kami]

yep...web/graphic/media design & development.

 

[kassy]

Your point IBhacknU ?

 

[perry]

Basic tech support for employee computers at a decent sized copper cable producing company. Just a part time job to help me support my computer habit.

 

[DaBoneHead]

Don't laugh cablegod, let me tell you the real story!

One system I work with is 7 million lines of COBOL code. We were given a charter to web-enable it, and open it up for B2B data interchange. Meeps like you recommended recoding it into C++, or god forbid, Java, but the history of such endeavors is one of utter failure, not to mention ROM expected cost was close to a billion dollars. So, we are using servlets and EJB's that call API's coded in COBOL, Assembler, and RPG. I was looking at a particular database interface program written in assembler just recently... It was originally written in 1968. Lol! Now there is code reuse! It was written a year before I was born. Anyways, we are successfully closing this project soon, at less than a mil for the three month endeavor...

Luckily, I don't code in COBOL, most of my stuff is in Java, Net.Data, SQL, and Rexx. I stopped doing C when I moved to the "e" paradigm back in 1997. And I work almost exclusively on IBM platforms.

 

[Engine]

>>One system I work with is 7 million lines of COBOL code
So, written in something like C that program would be what... 10000 lines?

 

[StageLeft]

7 million lines of Cobol. I'd love to see the computer housing that just destroyed; what a waste!

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Developer at a web company (asp, sql, vb, javascript). I could tell you where but then some cruel swine might inform them that I spend so much time here when I could be working

 

[Ulfwald]

Network admin, at a very large company

 

[Windogg]

They let me touch a computer every so often.

 

[Scoober]

Sys Admin, NT Admin, PC Spec, anything to do with computers at work = THAT'S ME!

 

[Cable God]

Awwwww Windogg come on..... details man I am just curious as to how many of us here actually work with this stuff everyday.

 

[Narse]

I work as a network admin for the lagest rental company, I work with Cisco, NT 4.0, Win 2k, adn some really really old HP mainframes and Lucents DataKit(old very relible and hard to understand!)

 

[deepcover]

Citrix Engineer for a large thin-client implementation company. Latest job would be a Program called CART. Center for Advanced Research and Technology. It is a "School" that kids from other public schools are able to come to and learn Engineering, Cisco equipment, and various general computer knowledge studies. We implemented close to 40 servers. We deliver over 160 applications via Citrix to all students through a web page. That way they can work in the building or from home.

 

[tim0thy]

Systems Engineer at Dow Jones (specifically wsj.com) Anything that has to do with the computers and servers I touch. weee...

 

[HKSturboKID]

Novell, NT, Unix Admin here. and a little Web Development on the side.

 

[64bitloopy]

Sleep an awful lot.

 

[IBhacknU]

<< Your point IBhacknU ? >>



in my former life, I invented the IT industry

 

[kassy]

I didnt know that til I came to the US, before setting foot here I thought ARPANET etc was responsible for where we are today....
Damn, did anyone tell them that they owe it all to A Gore ?

 

[pidge]

I work in SQA for a video card company.