Those are what FORTRAN people are hired for. To maintain their archaic systems which store vital information.

Sounds like a business opportunity to me.

I don't understand what they mean by "no VB runtime". My impression was that the VB installer always included all the DLLs necessary to run on a generic Win32 system. If they change something to break VB programs, they'll also be breaking lots of other Win32 software, too.