[Info-vax] Real live example...

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-02-20, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 2/20/2023 8:01 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>                          This includes migrating an estimated 1.5 
>> million lines of COBOL code plus other programming languages to the 
>> cloud-ready language, Java."
>
> Side note:
>
> Java is not more cloud ready than any other language
> that can run on x86-64.
>
> In fact Java is less cloud ready than some other
> technologies for FaaS cloud.
>

However, it's easy to convince the cheque signers that Java is a nice
modern language while COBOL is some old obsolete language that needs to
be replaced.

Note that I am NOT saying this is the reality. I am only saying that it's
easy to convince the cheque signers that it is...

Simon.

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