.NET Is winning here. It's not just the PFSCK either, we really don't have many. It's the buy a box or 3 or 6 at a time, for well under what any z/Solution would run. Operational Budgets vs. Capital Budget.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples > Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:10 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia > > >BTW: Isn't COBOL the most primitive language in use ? OK, I assume > >Basic > > >(BASIC ?) is not in use. Isn't COBOL unpopular on other platforms ? > > Agreed, not even close. > > Enterprise COBOL is very advanced. XML, Unicode, object > stuff, every kind of cross-language calling convention, a > really advanced LE runtime, high performance.... > > The whole article is a bit like arguing that English is > primitive so we should all switch to Esperanto. You want your > programming language for your tax system to be durable, and > COBOL is definitely durable. Scores of "popular" programming > languages have come and gone during COBOL's lifetime, and the > analysts estimate there's a net new 5 million lines of COBOL > each year, today. But if they want to write new business > logic in some other language, no problem -- COBOL can fully > interoperate with lots of other languages. > > I did cringe at the Microsoft .NET bit. Not a good idea, > IMHO. I would have picked something that didn't *require* > such a complex multi-tiered deployment architecture. (Whether > I would actually install a complex deployment architecture is > another question, but I wouldn't have picked something that > required it.) But I realize Accenture has people on the bench > they need to use. :-) > > [Please note that I am speaking only for myself (at most) and > not for my employer. My employer has the deepest respect for > Accenture, at least occasionally.] > > - - - - - > Timothy F. Sipples > Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries IBM Japan, Ltd. > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
