hello, i have been thinking about this off-and-on for the past 10 months, and have just realized that there's a major opportunity to make gnucobol a force to reckon with. if gnucobol be made to comply with the standards 100%, then a system can be built using stock components from the gnu/linux toolchest to craft an open system capable of supporting the cobol code from legacy systems. if such a system be built and released as free software, it could pave the way for a migration of a whole lot of systems from 'ibm' to standard x86-64 based hardware. the biggest question that comes to mind is; what capabilities be expected off such a system platform? other than of course the ability to compile and run legacy cobol code, with as little modifications as possible! requesting a discussion on this topic. ~mayuresh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ open-cobol-list mailing list open-cobol-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-cobol-list
