On 8/21/2014 7:08 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
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
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:26:05 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote:
IIRC, when Greg Lotko referenced these same statistics during his
keynote address at SHARE in Boston, he mentioned that approximately 40%
of those new customers were z/OS.
I wonder where I was at the time - I'm pretty sure that would have
On 22/08/2014 3:08 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
Having said that, my understanding is that this count of new customers
includes customers that completely reversed previously confirmed,
in-progress business plans to migrate off the mainframe. IMHO, it is
completely fair to count them as new since
Hi Ed,
I recollect the same as you do from Greg Lotko.
IMHO opinion though, one big thing I see as missing are the user focused tv
commercials and print ads. The end user customer used to push for each new
upgrade. Now the voices of the tech folks are hard for them to hear above the
noise
: Meet Cobol's hard core fans
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Hi Ed,
I recollect the same as you do from Greg Lotko.
IMHO opinion though, one big thing I see as missing are the user focused
tv commercials and print ads. The end user customer used to push
In 53f69bf0.40...@acm.org, on 08/21/2014
at 08:25 PM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org said:
I don't know how colleges train people in IT these days, but in the
old days students were taught basic programming concepts and
algorithms and exposed to many different programming languages in
order to
Am 22.08.2014 03:25, schrieb Joel C. Ewing:
As for the coming critical shortage of COBOL programmers: I don't know
how colleges train people in IT these days, but in the old days
students were taught basic programming concepts and algorithms and
exposed to many different programming languages
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
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 -
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I'm somewhat surprised to see an IBM employee publicly disclosing such business
statistics.
-- gil
On 21 August 2014 16:48, Greg Shirey wgshi...@benekeith.com wrote:
As for the other 90% of businesses running mainframes today, Vecchio thinks
the Cobol brain drain will be the
catalyst for more extensive migrations off the platform, through rewrites,
moves to packaged applications or
On 8/21/2014 at 05:47 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote:
Not entirely clear to me how the COBOL brain drain is addressed by
recompiling and re-hosting Cobol on distributed computing platforms.
It's magic, I guess. Suddenly someone other than a long-time COBOL developer
will be able to
On 8/21/2014 at 04:19 PM, Paul Gilmartin
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote:
I'm somewhat surprised to see an IBM employee publicly disclosing
such business statistics.
IBM executives get away with a lot of !@#$ like that. Pre-announcing stuff,
etc. IBM executive
On 08/21/2014 03:19 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
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
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
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