John, Geez, everything is written in Java ?
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 9:37 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
