On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 14:26 -0500, Scott Nelson wrote:
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:47 -0500, 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?
Probably not hard at all -- I can't imagine a cobol compiler/runtime/ executable needing anything in HP/UX that isn't in Centos (or any other Linux for that matter). The bigger problem is getting the COBOL vendor to port to the version of Linux you want, Centos in this case.
[...] anyone have any experience with Fujitsu Cobol on Centos?
I have not, but we do use AcuCOBOL version 4 from AcuCorp which was recently bought by MicroFocus (they are up to version 8 now: http://www.microfocus.com/products/extend/ )
Scott
I also used AcuCobol, after I left "The Big Company", on an SCO micro-based application. It was also quite decent. No surprises discovered.
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