[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/15/2021 3:58 PM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
> Interesting article on COBOL from 2017:
> <https://www.eweek.com/it-management/why-new-ceo-will-keep-cobol-a-key-focus
> -of-micro-focus/>
> "“Forty years ago, Micro Focus had COBOL, predominately mainframe COBOL, and
> helped in the development of COBOL applications,” Hsu said. “Today, COBOL is
> still one of the largest assets in the portfolio, and it’s growing.
> 
> “Mission-critical applications in COBOL still run most of the major at-scale
> transaction systems, such as credit-card processing, large travel logistics,
> and so on. What Micro Focus has done is innovate in COBOL to make it
> mobile-accessible, cloud deployable and deployable in a distributed model.”

Those with large mainframe COBOL environments can go 3 ways:
- keep the mainframe+COBOL and innovate on new applications
- keep the COBOL code but migrate it to Windows/Linux on x86-64
   platform
- replace the entire solution likely candidates C++/Java on
   Linux

Most go for the first dash.

But the other two happen.

MicroFocus provide COBOL for the second dash. Their compiler
supports native Windows, native Linux, .NET, JVM etc.

But there are other as well. Fujitsu, GT and RainCode has COBOL
for .NET as well.

Maybe slightly surprising but Windows and .NET seems pretty
popular with those moving their COBOL applications to
new platform.

Arne