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I don’t think you necessarily need a mainframe in order to run a program written in COBOL. (There’s also emulation available, to accommodate worst case scenario
by Koshkin 2y ago
I don’t think you necessarily need a mainframe in order to run a program written in COBOL. (There’s also emulation available, to accommodate worst case scenarios.)
- jabl 2y agoThere's even a COBOL frontend in GCC these days! That being said, the problem isn't so much the COBOL language itself but rather that all the software written in it is connected to all kinds of database system, messaging systems(?) and whatnot, making it very hard to move to some non-mainframe platform even if a customer so chooses. Or to put it another way, it's cheaper to pay even the very high prices to IBM to keep on the mainframe track rather than to migrate.