> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of David Andrews > Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 9:20 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: > Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions? <Snipped> > I'll bet I could rent some nice office space and hire a small team of > superprogrammers for that same money, PLUS have enough to pay a modest > shareholder dividend.
BUT the resulting reduction in customer CPU utilization would cannibalize the additional hardware sales that would have been made when customer work volume increases, making the hardware side of the house *very* unhappy... Reducing customer CPU utilization likely loses IBM more money than it makes them, so guess what priority optimal code generation is likely to have? Peter This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
