On Wed, 21 May 2008 15:12:58 -0400 "William L. Maltby" CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com wrote:
If MF COBOL is still available, might be worth a look. It was very good then. Should be very good now if still around. It was *very* compatible with the IBM flavor(s).
I vaguely recall reading that there is some kind of a licensing "gotcha" in later versions of MicroFocus Cobol that apparently was not present in earlier versions.
Anyone considering a MF Cobol installation may want to research the licensing situation carefully. I don't remember any specifics about it at all, other than what I have written above. It may have been resolved, or it may not have existed in the first place and be simply someone's misunderstanding of the situation. But it's worth checking out.