On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:16:33 -0500, Ed Gould wrote:
>http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9250527/
>Meet_Cobol_s_hard_core_fans?source=CTWNLE_nlt_shark_2014-08-21
>
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9250527/Meet_Cobol_s_hard_core_fans?source=CTWNLE_nlt_shark_2014-08-21
>Computerworld - With the long-anticipated Cobol skills shortage
>starting to bite, many businesses have been steadily migrating
>applications off the mainframe. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South
>Carolina has been doubling down.
Some 23 of the world's top 25 retailers, 92 of the top 100 banks,
and the 10 largest insurers all entrust core operations to Cobol
programs running on IBM mainframes, says Deon Newman, vice
president, IBM System z. Since 2010, around 50 to 75 customers
have left the mainframe fold, IBM says, while some 270 of IBM's
3,500 mainframe customers have come aboard as new clients since
then, Newman says.
I'm somewhat surprised to see an IBM employee publicly disclosing
such business statistics.
-- gil
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