[Info-vax] COBOL Is Obsolete (was Re: Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?)

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <sif841$1b6j$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
<arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> That does not really match reality.
> 
> SQL is very much used in Cobol.
> 
> Cobol and embedded SQL to either Oracle Rdb or Oracle DB
> (Oracle Classic in traditional VMS terminology) may very well
> be the most widely used RDBMS and programming language combination
> on VMS.

It is probably also the combination which generates the most profit for 
those running such applications, and those are some of the biggest VMS 
customers.