Re: How many lines of Cobol running worldwide???

From: JerryMouse (nospam_at_bisusa.com)
Date: 01/07/04

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    Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:16:00 -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??
    >
    > Thanks in advance.

    Put me down for a couple hundred just today.

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