I did a polls recently to see what new development is happening on CICS specifically. The result was very surprising. Out of 190 votes only 5% said that they have no new development plans. 48% said that the new development is in Natural 28% said COBOL
The poll results is over here http://www.cicsworld.com/node/198 I will probably run the poll again later in 2008 again to see what it looks like. Ian http://www.cicsworld.com On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >That estimate may be vastly overstated. A large number of in-house COBOL > systems and packages written in COBOL have been replace by things like SAP. > > I disagree with that, but there is no (recent) evidence to support it > either way. > The last studies I saw were for Y2K, and there was still a lot of code. > > Two companies I worked for estimated it would take a minimum of 5 years > and $100,000,000 US to do it. > Both are still generating new COBOL code every year. > One outsourced their development to India because they couldn't find any > new COBOL programmers. > Unfortunately, that meant they moved the problem around, and with India's > economy speeding up, programmers are moving around quickly with higher > salaries each time. > This also means that what little business knowledge they managed to > transfer to India is quickly disappearing. > > So, I think the cost and time estimates are low. > > I could go on, but I'll stop now. > > - > Too busy driving to stop for gas! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
