[CentOS] COBOL
Ross S. W. Walker
rwalker at medallion.com
Wed May 21 20:57:37 UTC 2008
Michael wrote:
> Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I am working with
> a company that is migrating 20 years of Mainframe Software Development
> to Unix, HPUX. How much harder would it be to go to Linux, Centos Linux?
>
> Also, anyone have any experience with Fujitsu Cobol on Centos? The
> Fujitsu people only support Red Hat, and said I'd be on my own with
> Centos. In other words if it works, then I don't care about Fujitsu
> support.
>
> I know some of you are thinking, did someone say "COBOL"? Nobody uses
> COBOL anymore! If so, let me say "You are wrong". Many large
> corporations are taking their old business logic that was written in
> COBOL decades ago, and moving it to new modern platforms, like Linux.
> Programatically giving these applications a GUI face-lift, while
> maintaining their original business logic. I know because many companies
> pay me to do just that. I have a client that wants to use Centos Linux
> with Fujistu Cobol, and Fujitsu says it's gotta be Red Hat, any help
> will much appreciated.
I would just buy the RH licenses for the project. CentOS may work well
for development and testing platform, but the production code should
be on fully supported RHEL.
I haven't done Cobol and Fortran programming since college where I
learned these on the DEC VAX VMS systems. It was interesting to see
VMS also running on the DEC Alphas at the time since I always
associated it with minis.
-Ross
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