Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 23:37:36 -0800 (PST) From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.truenorth.org> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: lenzi@bsi.com.br, brian@mediacity.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD beats SCO at its own game Message-ID: <199612200737.XAA00619@superior.truenorth.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961219134048.292C-100000@localhost> from Doug White at "Dec 19, 96 01:43:08 pm"
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>On Thu, 19 Dec 1996, Lenzi, Sergio wrote: > >> A Small banking company 1 central and 4 "sites" are all running SCO with >> a cobol application based on mfcobol. > >COBOL...it never dies! :) > The common wisdom has approximately 75% to 85% of all existing code is written in COBOL. Most of it is 15 to 20 years old and in bad need of a rewrite. Your checking account at your bank is maintained by a badly documented, bug ridden, 20 year old cobol program running on an IBM mainframe. Be afraid, be very afraid. [ DELETED ] Josef -- Josef Grosch | Laugh while you can, monkey boy ! | FreeBSD 2.1.6 jgrosch@sirius.com | - John Warfin - | UNIX for the masses
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