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. > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill