Vice President of Marketing, Becky, simply couldn’t believe that Vice President of Engineering, Mark, would go behind her back to the CEO and convince her to re-allocate the $1.3 million they had set aside for a new segment-oriented marketing campaign. But he did, and the money was reassigned to fund a research project. This happened in August 2001, just after Becky and Mark had agreed to split $2.6 million in the 2002 budget between the new marketing campaign and a much-needed retrofit for the Engineering Services Office. It appeared that Becky and Mark, both company officers and members of the board, had a pretty large bone to pick.
Why Object Orientation for COBOL?
“Why is Microsoft interested in having so many languages target the new environment? Why bother with a language as old as COBOL?” The answer lies in recognizing that most businesses do not have the luxury of rewriting their large code base every time they want to extend the use of their existing applications.