Re: [open-cobol-list] Is there a problem with the OpenCOBOL site

[michael]

Sergey,

The problem occurred using a non-COBOL language, like PHP or Perl......

Now, see want you've done, I feel like ranting, again ;-)

Cobol is very alive, In fact, one estimate says that COBOL applications account for 60% of all the applications that are currently in operation, and another estimate says that these applications process 85% of all the transactions that are processed. So when you withdraw money from an ATM, place an airline reservation, or order a product over the Internet, chances are that a COBOL application has been used to process your transaction.

Another fact is that you just can't beat Cobol for business applications, doing decimal arithmetic is a joke in most other languages. However, their are still many fools who think, and teach other fools that Cobol is a dead language.

I have personally witnessed many failed, costly attempts to migrate Cobol applications to new fad languages. The few successful ones had to do it again within five years because support for the language they chose was no longer available, like FoxPro, or Turbo Pascal, or Delphi, even VB wasn't compatible between versions. Why, because IT managers made big $$ decisions based on marketing articles writen in trades magazines, fricken fools, believing everything they read.


Mike.



On 03/15/2011 03:20 PM, Sergey Kashyrin blathered:

This problem is permanent as of 1 year ago, as well as with OpenCobol, which is "closed" as openproject from my point of view, and dead as a language

 

Cheers

SKA

 

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From: michael

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Subject: Re: [open-cobol-list] Is there a problem with the OpenCOBOL site

I havn't had a problem going to http://www.opencobol.org/ in general, however I did just get an error at:
http://www.opencobol.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1281&forum=1

Service Temporarily Unavailable.

Two minutes later it works fine, odd!

I'm using Linux, browsing with chrome.


Mike.


On 03/15/2011 11:28 AM, William M Klein wrote:

For the last few days, I have been getting "service temporarily unavailable" messages almost (but not quite all) the time that I have tried looking at the OpenCOBOL forum entries.

Does someone know if there is an ongoing problem with this site?  If this isn't the best place to ask, can someone direct me to a better place to ask?

I use Microsoft IE and do have a security package, but I didn't "used to" have a problem with OC and I don't KNOW of anything that has changed.

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