Posted by Mike on Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 370 views
MONTREAL, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ – Speedware, a provider of legacy management and IT modernization solutions, today announced that it has signed an agreement with COBOL-IT to distribute COBOL-IT’s enterprise class open source COBOL in the North American market and to provide North American based support to COBOL-IT users. According to the terms of the agreement, Speedware will be the latest North American sales and support center, providing 24/7 technical support, re-hosting/system integration services, and training. WAIT! There is more to read… read on »
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - 398 views
The Social Security Administration is preparing for a wave of baby boomers to reach retirement age. It’s doing so with data centers and legacy systems that are downright ancient, according to a financial assessment from the agency.
Along with the outdated data centers, the SSA is wrestling with restructuring or replacing legacy systems and applications, particularly its Common Object Business Oriented Language (COBOL) software.
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Posted by Mike on Friday, December 17, 2010 - 324 views
I’ve been waiting 28 years to see if the other shoe would ever drop on the Tron universe. It has, and the result is visually stunning, intellectually engaging and emotionally exhausting.
As you might imagine, Tron: Legacy, which opens Friday, was a must-see movie for me. When the original Tron came out in 1982, I had just begun working as a mainframe systems programmer. I’d been working with computers for a decade, first in school and then professionally, so I knew a fair bit about them. Tron fascinated me because it was the first attempt to show what happens inside a computer. In doing so, it pushed the boundaries of filmmaking, both technically and artistically, in just about every way imaginable.
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 607 views
What to do with legacy systems is a topic that has come up a number of times in talking to other developers.
Legacy means different things to different people; for instance, it could mean anything from a 40-year-old COBOL application to a classic ASP Web page from 10 years ago. But one thing is certain: Nearly every shop has a few of these systems lingering around and periodically ask, “Which applications are worth updating?” (READ MORE)
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 625 views
Considering these challenges, one is not surprised whenever a cobol programmer decides to stick with legacy programming skills.
That is why I am dedicating this post to helping cobol mainframe programmers transition their skills or careers. READ MORE
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Posted by Mike on Friday, January 29, 2010 - 412 views
… off the mainframe, is now selling it as a way of enabling businesses to shift their applications written in legacy code like COBOL and PL1 to Linux. …
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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 Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 203 views
… the insurance practice at Novarica, wrote in a responding post that “the problem with Mainframe/COBOL systems is not that they’re bad at what they do. … MORE
