Cyrus Montakab Blog - General category

COBOL programmer salaries up by 43% in 1 year

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:06:00 GMT

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

Microfocus's increasing license costs & Legacy Modernization

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:26:00 GMT

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

Is COBOL Dead? or will there be COBOL code on starship Enterprise?

Tue, 05 May 2009 15:48:00 GMT

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 for businesses are to remain competitive.

Will COBOL survive such business needs? ...

Oracle takeover of Sun

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:46:00 GMT

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 in influencing the purchase ...

Green Shoots of recovery .... too early ?

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:43:00 GMT

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 point to the green shoots of recovery ?

Satyam auctioned - Tech Mahindra is new owner

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:00:00 GMT

Ok, I know this is not exactly legacy modernization issue ... but it is still interesting.