Re: [Q]: How many lines of Cobol running worldwide???

From: LX-i (lxi0007_at_netscape.net)
Date: 01/07/04 

Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:12:59 -0600

Francis ANDRE wrote:

> Hi Listers
>
>
> I made some research on the net to find out how many lines of cobol were
> running in today's production systems, but I could not find out a strong
> validated and (why not audited) figure.
>
> In my understanding from the various sources, it is counting in billions of
> lines....which is quite large in term of evaluation....Does anybody could
> give me more precise numbers, specially on past, present and future
> estimations??

Billions sounds right to me. Our one little Air Force aircraft
maintenance system has about 1.2M, and the supply system we interface
with has close to 5M. 

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