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Sure, but COBOL is also a huge maintenance cost compared to something written in, say, java, which has no end of somewhat versed developers.
by duaneb 12y ago
Sure, but COBOL is also a huge maintenance cost compared to something written in, say, java, which has no end of somewhat versed developers.
- zimpenfish 12y agoThat rather depends on how competent those "no end of developers" are. From my experience of Perl+Ruby developers, I'd be amazed if even 1% of Java developers were good enough to migrate an existing system without catastrophic results. And those 1% are a) hard to find, b) very expensive and c) likely already tied up and hoarded like gold-egg laying geese.
- walshemj 12y agoYes if your one of the worlds largest users of IBM mainframes as this company is finding good Cobol programmers is not going to be hard.