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Strongly disagree - COBOL apps are strongly tied to their obsolete hardware. On the other hand, containerized applications are "portable" - can run on everythin
by KptMarchewa 6y ago
Strongly disagree - COBOL apps are strongly tied to their obsolete hardware. On the other hand, containerized applications are "portable" - can run on everything that runs Linux.
- adamcstephens 6y agoCOBOL can and does run on x86 Linux. I suppose you could probably even put it in a container.
- toomanybeersies 6y agoFrom Big Blue itself, COBOL on a Kubernetes cluster! https://github.com/IBM/kubernetes-cobol https://github.com/IBM/kubernetes-cobol
- mrweasel 6y agoThat fantastic and terrifying at the same time. The complexity of Kubernetes and when you open the container: Bam, Cobol.
- KptMarchewa 6y agoIt can, but do you really believe is this what those apps are working on, or even that they could work without major rewrite? They are strongly tied to their mainframe environments.
- webreac 6y agoAs someone who has worked on migration project from redhat 6 to redhat 7, I strongly disagree.
- mrweasel 6y agoThe article speculates that the hardware is “no more” than 16 years old. Obsolete, but newer than the original code, meaning that it not that strongly tied to the hardware.