Re: [Framers] Nostalgia - was Re: FrameMaker 2015

2020-04-10 Thread Robert Lauriston
To the contrary, I think pretty much everyone is trying to move off legacy mainframe systems. It's a booming business. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d=migrate+cobol+to+the+cloud On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 9:55 AM Lin Sims wrote: > > Because they still work, they're reliable, and

Re: [Framers] Nostalgia - was Re: FrameMaker 2015

2020-04-10 Thread Lin Sims
Because they still work, they're reliable, and at this point they're pretty much unhackable. Plus, the cost of transferring all that data and creating programs in modern languages is incalculable. No one wants to make the investment. -- Lin Sims ___

Re: [Framers] Nostalgia - was Re: FrameMaker 2015

2020-04-10 Thread Robert Lauriston
In related news: "Literally, we have systems that are 40-plus-years-old," New Jersey Gov. > Murphy said over the weekend. "There'll be lots of postmortems and one of > them on our list will be how did we get here where we literally needed > COBOL programmers?" >

Re: [Framers] Framers Digest, Vol 169, Issue 9

2020-04-10 Thread Art Campbell
Perhaps you could also remember not to Reply to the Digest, so we don't receive it twice, please? Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson