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

From: Richard (riplin_at_Azonic.co.nz)
Date: 01/08/04 

Date: 7 Jan 2004 19:16:27 -0800

"Francis ANDRE" <francis.andre@easynet.fr> wrote

> It does not matter so much to count included lines by copy....compare to the
> figures I got from the net....My question is more to understand if the
> Gartner's evaluation is more or less close to the "reality"...200 billions
> of Cobol lines!!!

It is impossible to know.
 
> 75% of business data is processed in COBOL (Source: Gartner).

That is a completely different thing as well, and has no relationship
to the number of Cobol lines (as long as there are _some_). It may
also be that some of the same data may also be processed for different
things in different languages.

> There are 180 billion to 200 billion lines of COBOL in use worldwide
> (Gartner).
> 15% of new applications are written in COBOL (Gartner).
> Replacement costs for COBOL systems estimated at $25 per line are in the
> hundreds of billions of dollars (Tactical Strategy Group).

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