Michael wrote:
Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I am working
with a company that is migrating 20 years of Mainframe Software
Development to Unix, HPUX. How much harder would it be to go to Linux,
Centos Linux?
I think you would be better served looking for a flavour of COBOL that
provides portability via platform independence, rather than choosing
your platform and then a COBOL to suit. We use ACUCOBOL from Acucorp
for this reason. Our code, once compiled, will run on many different
platforms without us doing anything. Acucorp had the write once run
everywhere idea well before Java did.
Also, anyone have any experience with Fujitsu Cobol on Centos? The
Fujitsu people only support Red Hat, and said I'd be on my own with
Centos. In other words if it works, then I don't care about Fujitsu
support.
I know some of you are thinking, did someone say "COBOL"? Nobody uses
COBOL anymore! If so, let me say "You are wrong". Many large
corporations are taking their old business logic that was written in
COBOL decades ago, and moving it to new modern platforms, like Linux.
Programatically giving these applications a GUI face-lift, while
maintaining their original business logic. I know because many
companies pay me to do just that. I have a client that wants to use
Centos Linux with Fujistu Cobol, and Fujitsu says it's gotta be Red
Hat, any help will much appreciated.
I know COBOL is still out there, and the latest tools for GUI
development let you build apps that users can't recognise as COBOL
apps. Business logic in COBOL is rock solid and won't be replaced
anytime soon. With a GUI front-end, why change?
Thanks,
Cheers,
Ian
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