Posted by Mike on Tuesday, January 26, 2010 - 399 views
Over time, this management behavior at Company X resulted in a “Rube Goldberg” system requiring the work of hordes of COBOL programmers just to keep running. Overnight order processing required more than 200 manual steps. …
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 621 views
Oh, yeah, a new z11 mainframe generation is rumored. Did I miss anyone? Probably.
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Posted by Mike on Friday, January 8, 2010 - 558 views
Scan through IT news on any given day, and there’s a good chance you’ll find a story about some large organization or another replacing its IBM mainframe with servers running UNIX, Linux — and sometimes even Windows.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 1,364 views
However, unless you look beyond the tried and tested legacy systems and development, such as Cobol, it is unlikely that UK IT contractors will face a … MORE
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Posted by Mike on Friday, January 1, 2010 - 242 views
Believe it or not, COBOL developers are still in demand, says Jim Lanzalotto … “Buried in the middle of the description, it says, ‘writes COBOL as needed. … MORE