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Re: why rpg and not cobol


On 4/18/13 12:08 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:
On 4/18/2013 12:30 PM, Stone, Joel wrote:

RPG and COBOL should never have lasted 50+ years until 2013 - that in itself is remarkable and a testament to the value of locking clients into a specific hardware brand & OS.
Why do Americans drink coffee in the morning instead of soup? Once
enough people adopted that behaviour, an ecosystem grew to support it.
Coffee makers, grinders, many flavours and styles to buy in grocery
stores, shops that sell the stuff made-on-the-spot. Imagine trying to
get those millions to switch to soup, with all that infrastructure
they'd have to rip out and re-create!
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Case in point for this one is the JDE World (i-based) market.

An Oracle salesman was at my daughter's wedding. When I told him what I did, he groaned about how friggin' hard it was to pry JDE customers off the "i".

I think Oracle now has simply adopted to it.. Keeps on going with JDE on IBM i now..



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