Re: COBOL Compiler for Windows

On Thu, 1 May 2008 02:56:51 +1200, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's not free, though. It's not even cheap. Emulating the mainframe
operating environment is not trivial.

Sure it is.

But the people who want it are used to paying through the nose so why
disappoint them?

One day the mainframe world will wake up to the fact that they have a
choice. There WAS a time when mainframe hardware was the only game in town
and vendors (both hardware and software) could charge anything they liked.

Why should they worry about emulating the mainframe environment on a
PC?

The future of mainframes is as a component in the system. It will be
the database full of security rules and powerful behind-the-scenes
action. There is no reason to duplicate real data on PCs (security
audits will make sure we don't), nor to create allowable test data.
The DBAs and systems people will handle that component, just as the
network people handle the routers and ports.
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