Hi, Michael In begining excuse me my English. I know it is not my strongest side. At secoundary scool from 1985 to 1988 I learnt COBOL in Hungary in an IBM 360 clone called R20. It was a standad mainframe of the socialist part of Europe. Two mounth ago I decided I relearn it by OpenCobol. Because of my two children and so much work it is now only a dream. But I have a question: is the OpenCobol with a Linux Distibution (perhaps Debian) a solution for your problem (maybe???)? I am sure the Identification and Environment Division will snugly must rewrite. Best all, and have a real succes! Zoli 2008/5/21, Michael <michael at j3ksolutions.com>: > 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, > > -- > Michael Anderson, > J3k Solutions > Sr.Systems Programmer/Analyst > 832.515.3868 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >