Tony Placilla aplacilla@jhu.edu Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:47 PM, in message
48346E2D.4080203@j3ksolutions.com, Michael michael@j3ksolutions.com 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.
Thanks,
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Where I work (in a Uni library) we encounter the same issue. The ISVs *only* support & certify against RHEL. However, I do my development, test, staging, etc. on CentOS that I keep version compliant with upstream.
I have had *no* problems.
My short answer is, if it works on RHEL, it works on CentOS.
Again, YMMV & if it breaks, you get to keeps the pieces.