On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 06:46:24AM +0100, Herve Bonvin wrote: > It is not a performance or ressource problem but a cost problem. > Our 4 CPU's are more or less sleeping during the night. This cpu ressource > is almost "free". > > On the other hand, the price of running our batch applications (cobol) on > z/OS is very high and difficult to reduce. > > Portability is also an important factor for us. Once the batch is running on > z/OS, the migration to other plateforms is very difficult. If the batch is > running on linux, the choice for future migration is much better. >
Have you considered other options? On unix, perl would probably have been my first option. It is well adapted to unix. It has also been ported to many other platforms. There are a number of other such higher-level languages (most notably python, but some would also point out ruby) Having worked with java and perl, perl is *my* first choice. -- Tzafrir Cohen http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sms: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
