Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment
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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).
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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!
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