-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/07 08:01, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:56:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 10/24/07 18:03, Chris Parker wrote: >>> Thanks for the responses. We do now use microfocus, but that is running >>> on SCO. I was looking for a Linux version less expensive. Licensing >>> for Microfocus on Linux is $500,000 for everything. This is too keep >>> from having to go to Windows environment. >> $500,000??? There's a lot of "everything" that you're not telling >> us about. Dozens of developer seats, thousands of CALs, "gold" >> service contract, etc? >> >> Is it that much more expensive than the SCO or Windows license? > > Which certainly changes the potential answers to the "why COBOL" > question I asked that was never answered by the OP.
Probably because they have a ton of code already written in COBOL. Certainly it would cost more than $500K to port (and debug) all that code to another language. Besides, for the problem sets that COBOL is aimed at, it's a damned sight better than anything else out (there except maybe PL/I). - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHIKGHS9HxQb37XmcRAkjwAKCbENt1tWMElRhRQs5aDcy++6ht1wCfelA9 7ne0OoeNJKe/lgIH+uU6PRc= =isBN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]