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COBOL programmer salaries up by 43% in 1 year
See IT Job Watch site. Here is my ideas on the reasons for this increase ...Read more...
Microfocus's increasing license costs & Legacy Modernization
Legacy Modernization focus is changing faster from Rehosting to translation - thanks to the ever increasing Microfocus license costs.Read more...
From COBOL Data-Types to Java/C# Primitive data-types
This is a continuation of my earlier blog - asking what would be the desirable characteristics of a COBOL program - rewritten in OO Java or C#. I followed that post with a description of first steps to go from Structured data definitions into an ...
Happy 50th Birthday to COBOL
People get very religious about Computing languages. C# vs Java, VB vs Delphi, C++ and LISP. But quite frankly, I somehow never expected developers to treat COBOL as a religion: No object-orientation (not one which has been accepted or used), no exception ...
COBOL Business Rule projects are large projects
Question is how bigger would the project become if they migrated to “maintainable&...
Business Rules in Legacy Modernization
Here at SoftwareMining, we get two types of interest in Business rules. In the first instance there are projects who simply want to re document the system or re-produce a functional specification for the purpose of rewrite. The 2nd set of interest is from ...
COBOL Re-host vs COBOL Translation (to Legible Java or C#)
Recently there has been a lot of activity in the Re-hosting world, as evident in quarterly reports of MicroFocus as well as the big rehosting companies. But why would anyone rehost as oppose to translate? lets look at the pros and cons of each solution ...
Is COBOL Dead? or will there be COBOL code on starship Enterprise?
In the 60's, the list of companies in the Fortune 500 was so stable that it took 20 years for a third of them to change. Now it takes only four years (source: The Economist). There is a lot of pressure forbusinesses are to remain competitive. Will COBOL ...
Oracle takeover of Sun
Surely this is good !!! If IBM had bought Sun, the big players in Server market would have been IBM and HP only. I read that Sun's list of open-source Software (Java and MySQL) was a major factor ininfluencing the purchase ... Read more...
From COBOL Data-Section to an OO Design
This is a continuation of my earlier blog - asking what would be the desirable characteristics of a COBOL program - rewritten in OO Java or C#. In the first step we discussed the necessity for Semantic Translation. In the next section I would like to ...
Green Shoots of recovery .... too early ?
For first quarter of 2009 - Goldman reported $1.8 Billion, JPMorgan reported a net profit of $2.14 billion, and Wells-Fargo is expected to make $3 billion quarterly profit. Meanwhile, Intel's net earning is down - but better than expected. Does all this ...
Semantic translation - First requirement for generation of "Maintainable" Code
In my yesterday's blog, I asked what would be the desirable characteristics for a COBOL program re-written in Java or C#? It doesn't really matter whether the process is achieved in a manual rewrite, or through automatic translation. But the amountof time ...
Satyam auctioned - Tech Mahindra is new owner
Ok, I know this is not exactly legacy modernization issue ... but it is still interesting.Read more...
Resistence is Futile ... You will be Translated
Various reports suggest that the COBOL code base is still growing between 3 to 5% per year. The past Legacy modernization projects have only touched the tip of the iceburg. The modernization projects to-date has mostly started due to an immediate ...
Cyrus Montakab
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Re: Happy 50th Birthday to COBOL
the correct comparison would be to ask: would you replace the footings of your house (even if it's 50 years old) as you do it with your car or cd player :) of course not, even if you see on discovery that it's possible. rather wait the last moment ...
Re: Resistence is Futile ... You will be Translated
Very, very good point. Actually - we are working on that :) It works like this: During the translation, the "paragraphs&quo...
Re: COBOL programmer salaries up by 43% in 1 year
I think the figures on the website refers to permanent jobs - not contracting positions. Also, I would have thought the COBOL "permenant"...

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People get very religious about Computing languages. C# vs Java, VB vs Delphi, C++ and LISP. But quite frankly, I somehow never expected developers to treat COBOL as a religion: No object-orientation (not one which has been accepted or used), no exception handling, and allowing lots of bad practices: GO-TOs, REDEFINES ...

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