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Computer World (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
(Source: Micro Focus) Most businesses have come to realize that recycling or reusing proven processes in combination with newer technologies addresses current and future business needs. This white paper focuses on creating web services as well as the strategic systems architecture to deliver renewed business value from existing COBOL applications running on either mainframe or distributed platforms.There...
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Computer World (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
(Source: Micro Focus) Most businesses have come to realize that recycling or reusing proven processes in combination with newer technologies addresses current and future business needs. This white paper focuses on creating web services as well as the strategic systems architecture to deliver renewed business value from existing COBOL applications running on either mainframe or distributed platforms....
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GadBall.com (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Our client in the Pittsburgh, PA area has an immediate need for a Cobol Programmer. The successful candidate will be responsible for systems design, analysis, coding, testing, implementing program logic and interfacing with users to establish requirements, process specifications and perform system maintenance in support of Accounting applications. Required 2 years of demonstrated experience and competence...
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GadBall.com (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Robert Half Technology has an immediate need for an experience COBOL Developer in the Pittsburgh area. Qualified candidates should have experience with business application development for mission-critical systems. Experience with developing or maintaining any of the following business applications is a plus but not required order processing, product distribution, inventory control, and purchasing...
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BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Thanks for sticking up for the underdogs, OpenVMS and COBOL. I actually own both Alpha and IA-64 hardware; a DEC Personal Workstation 500a, and an HP rx2600, respectively. But they both run GNU, of course. :) I find VMS interesting from a design standpoint; the biggest strike I can see against it is the application stack, right down to the command interpreter, DCL. Back when I used it, it felt grotty...
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Supercomputing Online (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Software AG today expanded the webMethods Application Modernization Suite with the introduction of the Discovery Edition. Based on Software AG's global reseller agreement with Relativity Technologies, the Discovery Edition can be used to document and analyze existing code bases -- including Cobol, PL/I, RPG, Visual Basic, C/C++ and Java -- in order to eliminate software deficiencies, optimize application...
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BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
> while VAX/VMS is still around in the form of OpenVMS Actually, it's still actively development for the Alpha and Intel Itanium processors. Version 8.4 is about to enter field test. The VAX ended at version 7.3 a few years back, which is amazing for a processor that was last made 13 years ago. > vigorous as COBOL's I suspect that you might get some comments from the people developing COBOL. It's...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Like those who passionately argue the merits of PCs over Apples, there are some who see COBOL as the gray-haired maven of computer languages.
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C. Enrique Ortiz Mobility Weblog (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
According to the Tiobe Programming Community Index, Java is the top/dominant programming language (Aug 2008): Tiobe Programming Community Index, August 2008 (Credit: Tiobe) The same reports indicates that COBOL scores a new all time low (at position 19), yet it still is above Objective-C (at position 42)! Top 10 programming languages: 1. Java 2. C 3. (Visual) Basic 4. [...]
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The Register (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
The language that refused to die Inspite - or perhaps because - of its "difficult" birth, Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL) has become a survivor in the world of computing. That's caused problems when it comes to maintaining systems running the language.…
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CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
snydeq writes “Sure ‘legacy systems archaeologist’ ranks as one of the 7 dirtiest jobs in IT, but COBOL skills might see a scant revival in the wake of California’s high-profile pay-cut debacle. After all, as Fatal Exception’s Neil McAllister points out, new code may in fact be more expensive than old code. According to an [...]
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AterSlash (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
What COBOL really needs is a hip new framework to make it “cool”, just like Ruby!I propose COBOL on Rails. Any takers'Mod troll if you wish.
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FreakyTrigger (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
A brief dip into news territory for FT, as the web throws up this truly extraordinary story regarding the Californian budget negotiations. DON’T YAWN YET. It appears that Arnold Schwatzeneggar’s Republic’s have been unable to fix a budget for public spending and are running blind into the new session. The solution? Pay all state employees [...]
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InfoWorld Daily (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Fatal Exception blogger Neil McAllister offers his own take on the current state of COBOL when he writes, "If you can program in COBOL, the state of California might like to talk to you." But when you get past all the politics and the $177 million the state projects it will spend to upgrade its old systems, there's a technology twist in all this: new code is more expensive than old code. That's right:...
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InfoWorld Daily (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
As if anyone in tune with enterprise-class programming didn't already know... While Arnold Schwarzenegger's efforts to cut state employees salaries has sparked press reports liking Cobol to ancient hieroglyphics, Gartner says there are 180 billion lines of Cobol code in use and some 90,000 Cobol programmers worldwide. Cobol: Back from the dead. "It's worth remembering that older languages, and yes,...
