There are many reasons for a large business to use mainframes. I don't think that being committed to a legacy COBOL code base is an important one of these. In fact, the need to maintain COBOL applications (legacy or otherwise) presents a problem because new COBOL programmers are not being created at a very fast rate nowadays.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:41 PM, David K Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still, many businesses are much more conservative than business > leaders portray themselves to be. My favorite examples of this is > all the old mainframes that are still maintained in order to run COBOL > programs. > > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
