[open-cobol-list] R: Marketability, IBM, etc?

[Fabrizio Calabretta]

Dear FP,

 

first of all, due to the nature of the your questions, it would be nice to know your name and your company. The opensource cobol is a very interesting subject for analysts and you look like one of them. Nothing against, but it’s nice to know it.

 

BTW, as far as I know, and Roger may confirm, behind OC there is no big guy. Just good ones (Roger, Sergey, Keisuke-san, and some others).

 

Sure there is a market interest in opensource cobol, since microfocus is getting every day more boring with its price policies, fujitsu delivers only on a limited set of platforms, acu is practically dead and liant … who knows?

 

COBOL is still one of the most used languages and there are still tons of code written with it. Just consider there are more than 20K mainframes in the world: you just have to do some computing….

 

Regards

Fabrizio

 

 

 

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Oggetto: [open-cobol-list] Marketability, IBM, etc?

 

Who is using open source Cobol? Are there any big guys behind it--IBM, HP, etc? How much of a market exists for open source Cobol and is that market increasing or decreasing?

Thanks.

FP

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