Cobol - I wonder how Micro Focus will do THIS time?

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I wonder how Micro Focus will do THIS time?

Colin Campbell

2004-04-08, 6:30 pm

Gary wrote:
> http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040408/85165_1.html
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> Gary.
>
>
This sounds like another effort similar to what Micro Focus was touting
in the early 1990's, when they were riding high. The idea then was that
companies could off load their development and maintenance to the PC,
and everyone would benefit.

Then, our company, practicing "management by magazine", bought about 50
OS/2 licenses, 50 Micro Focus Workbench licenses, and 50 each for XDB
and whatever the IMS equivalent product is/was called (Z/IMS maybe?)

After 18 months of paying for these software licenses, and deploying
approx. 15 - 20 of them onto actual PC's, we did a pilot project to
"prove the concept". Conclusion? Since we had a world class mainframe
development environment (all the good tools, plenty of cycles, etc.),
and the advantage of a 20 year head start, using Micro Focus for this
purpose could be almost as good as working on the mainframe, EXCEPT for
the overhead of setting up the environment before doing even the
simplest maintenance task.

I think I'll remain a skeptic for a while longer.

The Family

2004-04-08, 9:30 pm

Xref: kermit comp.lang.cobol:86907

I don't even know what the Yahoo URL discussed, and I'm
already laughing after Colin's description, and his "Management
by Magazine" comment.

Gary

"Colin Campbell" <cmcampb@adelphia.net_remove_this> wrote in message
news:IBjdc.4$w%1.3@dfw-service2.ext.ray.com...
> Gary wrote:
> This sounds like another effort similar to what Micro Focus was touting
> in the early 1990's, when they were riding high. The idea then was that
> companies could off load their development and maintenance to the PC,
> and everyone would benefit.
>
> Then, our company, practicing "management by magazine", bought about 50
> OS/2 licenses, 50 Micro Focus Workbench licenses, and 50 each for XDB
> and whatever the IMS equivalent product is/was called (Z/IMS maybe?)
>
> After 18 months of paying for these software licenses, and deploying
> approx. 15 - 20 of them onto actual PC's, we did a pilot project to
> "prove the concept". Conclusion? Since we had a world class mainframe
> development environment (all the good tools, plenty of cycles, etc.),
> and the advantage of a 20 year head start, using Micro Focus for this
> purpose could be almost as good as working on the mainframe, EXCEPT for
> the overhead of setting up the environment before doing even the
> simplest maintenance task.
>
> I think I'll remain a skeptic for a while longer.
>

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