On 13 Oct 2009 08:01:58 -0700, d...@higgins.net (Don Higgins) wrote: >If you and your IBM management really believe "COBOL is the language of the >future", it seems to me that your development and support team, needs to >find a way to allocate some finite portion of your available resources to >constantly work on making your COBOL compiler more efficient using latest >available technology. If you advertised at SHARE what you have done with >those resrouces and that you are constantly working on performance >improvement as well as functional improvement. Then I think you would get >more feedback on what the performance improvement priorities are, and >the "cash cow" perspective would deminish.
It doesn't appear to me that IBM thinks traditional mainframes and associated environment (CoBOL), is the direction IBM wants to move to. Milk the old technology as long as it can, while going in different directions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
