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Feedback Area for: 16 Translator features Essential for successful COBOL to Java projects
This Blog section provides a feedback area for the page: 16 Translator features Essential for successful COBOL to Java projects . Please add your comments here.Read more...
COBOL to Java/C# - Comparison of Approaches
There are many advantages in moving old COBOL applications to Java. The purist development teams will always argue the best technical solution would be to rewrite the application. But at what cost is that path justifiable? Are such project successful? ...
Gradual COBOL to Java migration: one piece at a time
This page provides a feedback area for the high level overview document : Gradual COBOL to Java migration: one piece at a time - when a big-bang approach won't do. Please feel free to leave any constructive comments.
How To Manage COBOL to Java/C# Projects
This page provides a feedback area for the high level overview document : How To Managing COBOL To java/C# Projects Please feel free to leave any constructive comments.
MicroFocus Rehosting vs SoftwareMining Translation to Java or C#
Re-hosting vs Translation – 10 reasons for choosing a good translation to Java/C# over MicroFocus Rehosting solutions. Maintenance - COBOL developers are getting close to retirement age. All new developers know java and C# Technology – moving to java ...
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What did NASA Find on Mars? Evidence of COBOL modernization gone wrong?
This week there has been numerous news articles about NASA having made a historical find on planet Mars. I wonder what this could be! As this is a “legacy Modernization” forum, I keep my guesses/ humour only to related technology issues – such as Martian ...
Replacement of 200 Legacy System with a single ERP get cancelled after $1Bill
An article in Computer world magazine reports on Air Force scraps massive ERP project after racking up $1 billion in costs. The system was meant to replace some 200 legacy systems. According to the article, Oracle ERP was supposed to be used to ...
COBOL developers, Guns and Viagra
A recent article in The Economist - on Guns finishes off by saying: … most NRA convention-goers in St Louis were white men over the age of 40—a segment of the population on the decline. The classified sections in NRA magazines such as American Rifleman ...
COBOL Jobs for iPhone/iPad Developers
A large portion of corporate system remain in COBOL language – and there appears to be a mixed reviews on how organizations continue to maintain these. On one had, Robert L. Mitchell in Brain Drain article on computerworld notes that there is problems ...
IT Problems in UK banking, RBS Glitches – Govenor of BOE Calls for Inquiry
The UK Banking market is highly concentrated, with just five big consumer banks. Their sheer size means that even a mundane problem could cause a systemic crisis or a bank run. More reason for UK bankng system to undergo revamp ... Read more...
Business Rule Extraction - Flood or Sued
Filter out info which appearts to be unimportant& leave doors open to getting sued. Don't filter out anything - and flood of the information can kills the usefulness and project !Read more...Tags : business businessruleextracti...
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...
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...

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Re: MicroFocus Rehosting vs SoftwareMining Translation to Java or C#
hey thanks for sharing this interesting post.
Re: Options for moving from COBOL to Java/C#
All the above system have there own if and but's . I am not saying that it can not be done. What i mean here, still rewrite has a long way to go.
Re: COBOL programmer salaries up by 43% in 1 year
Last year I was talking to a System Integrator with large offices in India. He was telling mefresh Indian university graduates typically jump at the opportunity to work with this BIIG compoany. But then when they start to work, and get assigned to a COBOL ...

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COBOL programmer salaries up by 43% in 1 year

What does this mean for legacy systems?

See IT Job Watch site. Here is my ideas on the reasons for this increase ...

Microfocus's increasing license costs & Legacy Modernization

Increased licensing costs is hastening the move away from COBOL

Legacy Modernization focus is changing faster from Rehosting to translation - thanks to the ever increasing Microfocus license costs.

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