"Forging ahead Cobol" is an oxymoron.
TB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Neely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:14 PM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: Browser/platform snobbery
> Well, my assumptions are dropping like flies!
>
> Terry Brownell wrote:
> >
> > When Linux or any other OS forges ahead of MS, then I'm there
> > baby, with bells on.
> >
>
> Quoting from an article on ITworld.com:
>
> Most of the world's business data, approximately 75 to 85
> percent, is written in COBOL," adds Bill Payson, president
> and CEO of Senior Techs, an Internet-based job bank for
> experienced IT professionals in Campbell, Calif. "That
> translates to some hundreds of billions of lines of code."
>
> COBOL is used in some manner by almost all Fortune 500
> companies. Many of these companies have a large pool of
> COBOL-based applications that are primary business systems.
> E-business requires these systems to be integrated and
> connected to the outside world.
>
> "With the future of all commerce linked to the Internet,
> companies with massive databases know that success depends
> on the ability to move data in and out of the Internet,"
> Payson explains.
>
> Paul Halpern, director of traditional development solutions
> at Merant, a Web-enabling training company in Mountain View,
> Calif., maintains that, "If all the COBOL programs stopped
> working, the US economy would collapse." And he points out:
> "Nine out of ten of the top Internet brokers use COBOL with
> CICS [Customer Information Control Systems]. Chances are
> that when you use an ATM card you are starting a COBOL/CICS
> process. An IBM report published last year indicates 30 billion
> COBOL/CICS transactions are executed worldwide each day, more
> than the total number of Web pages hit each day."
>
> An obvious conclusion would be that it's not worth bothering with
> an unknown upstart language with a non-existent job market and
> a total transactions-per-day count that isn't even in the range
> of round-off error compared to the volumes mentioned above.
>
> At least not until it "forges ahead" of COBOL...
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ...
> > >
> > > I guess I'm with Tim Berners-Lee when he says "The power of
> > > the Web is in its universality" -- why dilute that power
> > > by restricting access?
> > >
>
> Greed. Pure and simple.
>
> Companies that cannot compete in technical excellence usually
> resort to the "4 L's" -- lies, license, lock-ins, and lawyers.
>
> Judge for yourself where this applies.
>
> -jn-
>
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