RE: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-22 Thread Michael Peterson
We use COBOL on Unix. I have worked with NCR/AT&T Unix and since 1995 have been supporting COBOL on SCO Unix. I am in the process of porting to CentOS and RHEL. We use RM/COBOL. It is supported by Liant at www.liant.com We use it for internal and Internet programming. They also support Web Service

RE: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-22 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
James B. Byrne wrote: > On : Wed, 21 May 2008 16:57:37 -0400, "Ross S. W. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I would just buy the RH licenses for the project. CentOS may work well > > for development and testing platform, but the production code should > > be on fully supported RHEL. >

RE: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-22 Thread James B. Byrne
On : Wed, 21 May 2008 16:57:37 -0400, "Ross S. W. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would just buy the RH licenses for the project. CentOS may work well > for development and testing platform, but the production code should > be on fully supported RHEL. Having been on RHEL support, and havin

Re: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-22 Thread Ian Blackwell
Michael wrote: Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I am working with a company that is migrating 20 years of Mainframe Software Development to Unix, HPUX. How much harder would it be to go to Linux, Centos Linux? I think you would be better served looking for a flavour of COB

Re: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread MHR
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:21 PM, James Bunnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was just told in no uncertain terms that it is not RHEL. > True, but the formal releases of CentOS are 100% compatible with the corresponding upstream release. (That's the whole point.) IOW, if it works in RH, it

RE: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Michael wrote: > Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I am working with > a company that is migrating 20 years of Mainframe Software Development > to Unix, HPUX. How much harder would it be to go to Linux, Centos Linux? > > Also, anyone have any experience with Fujitsu Cobol o

Re: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 14:26 -0500, Scott Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:47 -0500, Michael wrote: > > Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I am working > > with > > a company that is migrating 20 years of Mainframe Software Development > > to Unix, HPUX. How much harder

Re: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, May 21, 2008, Scott Nelson wrote: >On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:47 -0500, Michael wrote: >>Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I am working >>with >>a company that is migrating 20 years of Mainframe Software Development >>to Unix, HPUX. How much harder would it be to go to

Re: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread Scott Nelson
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:47 -0500, Michael wrote: Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I am working with a company that is migrating 20 years of Mainframe Software Development to Unix, HPUX. How much harder would it be to go to Linux, Centos Linux? Probably not hard at all

Re: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 21 May 2008 15:12:58 -0400 "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If MF COBOL is still available, might be worth a look. It was very good > then. Should be very good now if still around. It was *very* compatible > with the IBM flavor(s). I vaguely recall reading that there is so

Re: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread James Bunnell
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 14:51 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: > Apparently Oracle is the only ISV that's figured out that CentOS *is* > RHEL. > I was just told in no uncertain terms that it is not RHEL. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org ht

Re: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:47 -0500, Michael wrote: > Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I am working with > a company that is migrating 20 years of Mainframe Software Development > to Unix, HPUX. How much harder would it be to go to Linux, Centos Linux? It really depends on tw

Re: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread Tony Placilla
Tony Placilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University >>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:47 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I

Re: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread Stephen Harris
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:47:09PM -0500, Michael wrote: > pay me to do just that. I have a client that wants to use Centos Linux > with Fujistu Cobol, and Fujitsu says it's gotta be Red Hat, any help > will much appreciated. Have the client buy ONE RedHat license so that if they do ever have an

Re: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:47 -0500, Michael wrote: > Also, anyone have any experience with Fujitsu Cobol on Centos? The > Fujitsu people only support Red Hat, and said I'd be on my own with > Centos. In other words if it works, then I don't care about Fujitsu > support. Apparently Oracle is the