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

[Henry Crun]

On 15/08/2021 20:28, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
> 
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>> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was:
> Re:
>> LMF Licence Generator Code
>>
>> In article <sf3k2f$re3$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de
>> (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:
>>> In article <471ad39c-dbd2-401a-bf3f-9eb3ab213c77n at googlegroups.com>,
>> =?UTF-8?Q?Lawrence_D=E2=80=99Oliveiro?= <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com>
>> writes:
>>>> On Thursday, August 12, 2021 at 2:58:11 AM UTC+12, Bill Gunshannon
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Here we are 30 years later and there is still=20 new COBOL being
>>>>> written every day.=20
>>>>
>>>> By whom, and for what?
>>>
>>> It is still used in the financial industry, for instance.  And, yes,
>>> people are writing new COBOL code.
>>
>> I have two clients that are both writing COBOL for aerospace logistics and
> on
>> VMS too.
>>
>> --
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>> VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
>>
>> I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
> 
> Yep, I know of one US-Canada Customs 24x7 critical environment that is based
> on OpenVMS Cobol and Oracle Rdb.
> 
> If the App is down, trucks stop at the border.
> 
> Mostly mainframe, but seems like lots of Cobol:
> https://www.adzuna.ca/search?q=cobol&w=Canada
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kerry Main
> Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
Israeli Land Administration (one of the more computerised govornment departments) run several databasees on VMS running 
on emulation. COBOL programs are still running, being updated and new programs written. A couple of ex-Digits a(I'm one) 
for part-time maintainance, and it's been going for several decades...

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