Me too. But try to convince the Windows-oriented manage-by-magazine types. Well, this is the article for them.
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > > Still a lot of financial applications in CICS and IMS and DB2 are in > Cobol. I can see this happening easily. > > Scott ford > www.identityforge.com > > Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll > understand. - Chinese Proverb > > > On Feb 13, 2013, at 9:01 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > http://www.itworld.com/career/341879/cobol-will-outlive-us-all > > <quote> > > ... > > > > The reason that I’m telling you about COBOL is that I predict that over > the > > next few years, new COBOL programmers are going to be in high demand and > > very possibly paid a premium for their efforts. Generally speaking, the > > COBOL programming skill set resides in baby boomers that have been > > programming in COBOL their entire career. The issue is that these baby > > boomers have begun retiring in enormous numbers. Additionally, new > college > > recruits have neither the skill set nor the interest in replacing them. > The > > problem for companies employing these COBOL programmers is that if the > > software stops, so does the company. > > > > </quote> > > > > -- > > This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an > > actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? > > > > Maranatha! <>< > > John McKown > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
