John, Still a lot of financial applications in CICS and IMS and DB2 are in Cobol. I can see this happening easily.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Feb 13, 2013, at 9:01 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.itworld.com/career/341879/cobol-will-outlive-us-all > <quote> > ... > > The reason that I’m telling you about COBOL is that I predict that over the > next few years, new COBOL programmers are going to be in high demand and > very possibly paid a premium for their efforts. Generally speaking, the > COBOL programming skill set resides in baby boomers that have been > programming in COBOL their entire career. The issue is that these baby > boomers have begun retiring in enormous numbers. Additionally, new college > recruits have neither the skill set nor the interest in replacing them. The > problem for companies employing these COBOL programmers is that if the > software stops, so does the company. > > </quote> > > -- > This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an > actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
