From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 23:42:44 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA09550 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 23:42:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from superior.truenorth.org (ppp020-sm2.sirius.com [205.134.231.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA09545 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 23:42:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.truenorth.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA00619; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 23:37:38 -0800 (PST) From: Josef Grosch Message-Id: <199612200737.XAA00619@superior.truenorth.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD beats SCO at its own game In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Dec 19, 96 01:43:08 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 23:37:36 -0800 (PST) Cc: lenzi@bsi.com.br, brian@mediacity.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: jgrosch@sirius.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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