Re: If all the CoBOL people updating the language...

On 23 May 2006 20:30:15 -0700, "Holly" <anderschwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

What I have found in my experience working for big, slow companies is
that cost isn't the consideration. It's quality and ease. It's
reliability and the comfort level that management feels will cause the
least risk. None of these types want a slick system with open source
code, no matter how well it works. Cheap or free scares them.

There's some truth to this. But it only scares them for a while.
Cheap and easy comes in the back door. Apple II computers with
Visicalc snuck in. It wasn't long ago that Web pages were back-door
items.

When they decided to be a part of the Web, they found people who
already knew HTML and didn't have to go to HTML school. (Remember who
is doing the decision making). This was sort of like having the
bookkeepers running the early mainframes, they already knew tabulating
machines.

So the question is: As Web skills snuck in the back door, separate
from existing IS, could they have included CoBOL? I don't think
this was likely, even with an enhanced CoBOL, unless the language was
"free" the way Java and HTML were, or at least cheap, the way Visicalc
was.

Alternatively, were Visicalc or Web pages going to come in via MIS?
Not likely. Management was scared to let them in, and looked the
other way until it was too late to decide.

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