Re: Java is becoming the new Cobol

THE biggest problem with the mainframe is that IBM never embraced a GUI
screen. That's what it's all about. Why is everyone migrating from
mainframe to servers? In almost every place I've worked or looked at, it
is always the same thing. It's not about COBOL. It's not about
performance. It's not about security. It's not about reliability. It's not
about efficiency. In many cases it's not even about cost. It's all about
pretty colors, fancy fonts, drop down boxes, scroll bars, point-click and
giggle. Everyone wants that "rich GUI experience" in their application and
you can't do that on the mainframe. People don't want 3270 screens and
haven't for 15 years. If IBM had embraced GUI screen application
development on the mainframe, we'd still have strong mainframes today.

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