RE: Alternate Platform for COBOL

I do enjoy a lively debate! :)

The percentages I mentioned about COBOL and RPG come
from the March 2001 "Extreme Perspectives" survey
published jointly by IBM and News400.  The survey
looked at 750 AS/400 shops from around the world.
Respondents said that 69% of development was performed
in RPG and 8% of development was performed in COBOL.
Copies of the survey by looking for article ID 9790 at
www.iseriesnetwork.com.

Good point about OS/400 being able to manage multiple
environments on the same box.  A merged platform may
indeed run multiple environments.  This seems a good
reason for migrating COBOL/400 to those multiple
environments...which I think is the original theme of
this thread.

--- Jon Paris <Jon.Paris@partner400.com> wrote:
> > The difference between RPG and COBOL is that about
> > 70% of AS/400 shops use RPG and about 8% of shops
> > use COBOL. If there were ever a time for IBM to be
> > tempted to drop COBOL, the merger of the AS/400
> > and RS600 into a new platform would be the time.
>
> First of all your %ages are way off...

> > The merger of the AS/400 and RS6000 into single
> > midrange platform will indeed be slow and somewhat
> > unpredictable.  But today I see *nix on the AS/400
> > and on the RS6000.  I don't see OS/400 on the
> > RS6000.  I
> > think IBM has already set a bias in the direction
> > of the operating system merger.
>
> I'm not convinced.  While I don't take everything
> that Dr. Frank says as
> gospel, LPAR, Linux and PACE demonstrate that OS/400
> is capable of managing
> multiple environments in the same box.  I would say
> that the absence of
> OS/400 under AIX is a good sign and not the negative
> that you have painted.

> Hey - you
> did say you wanted
> dissent!  <grin>
>
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
>
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