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The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing

Some facts and inferences should be updatedAccenture's Consulting revenue dropped 12% and Outsourcing grew by 1%http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2009/Accentures-Future-Remains-Bright-ACN-IBM-HPQ1005.aspxSome of the issues you highlighted around process innovation, dated technology, etc will continue to remain. However, the nimbler players will also adopt the benefits of innovations like SaaS and Cloud platform.Underlying platform is an...

Tags: Managed hosting, Business process outsourcing (BPO), Programming languages, outsourcing, BPO, COBOL, outsourcing company

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

The 10 biggest moments in IT history

Despite its relatively short lifespan, IT has had some huge watershed moments. TechRepublic's Jack Wallen followed the tech timeline to identify the most pivotal events. It’s unlikely that everyone will ever agree on the most important dates in the history of IT. I...

Tags: ARPAnet, Information Technology, Operating System, Dot-com, Apple Inc., Wikipedia, COBOL, Napster Inc., Wiki, Linux, Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Online Communications, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Cobol moves into Amazon's cloud

Cobol moves into Amazon's cloudFirst, it's COBOL all caps...And second, what does anything COBOL have to do with this other than Micro Focus is the last publicly recognized vestige of COBOL?COBOL is alive and wellEducate thyself.http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2009/010909backspin.html

Tags: Programming languages, COBOL, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-16

SMTP/POP3 Email Engine (for COBOL) 5.0 (Windows)

The SMTP/POP3 Email Engine Library for COBOL (SEE4CB) is a library of functions providing easy control of the Simple Mail Transport Protocol and Post Office Protocol 3 protocols. A simple interface allows sending and receiving of e-mail, including multiple MIME base64 and quoted-printable encoded attachments. Knowledge of Winsock and TCP/IP...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, COBOL, MarshallSoft Computing, E-mail, Programming Languages, Tcp/Ip, Online Communications, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Networking

Software downloads 2008-12-26

Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinking

Chrome, IE8, and longer term thinkingI wonder -- would others please weigh inOk, your stats here are out to lunch but I wonder about your basic point.I think it's wrong - that almost any non OS specific programming language can be used to produce a standard code base from...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Programming languages, operating system, Linux, Google Inc., IE8, Chrome, longer-term, COBOL, window

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Net Express with .NET 5.1 (Windows)

Micro Focus Net Express with .NET is the market-leading COBOL development environment for extending core business processes to the .NET Framework and other distributed platforms. Powerful integration with Microsoft Visual Studio and the .NET Framework plus direct COBOL Web services capabilities, J2EE connectivity and XML support allow easy integration of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, COBOL, Programming Languages, .Net, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-07-21

From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeDitch all this Cr@p!They need to simply go with Vista Server and MS Access 2008 Server! Problem solved!http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comRE: From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframePlease bear in mind that the 360 came out ten years before the ideas...

Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, maintenance programming, COBOL, CFrom Chapter, data-processing, pianist, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp., mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

COBOL reflects 1920s data processing methods - and because the IBM 360 implemented COBOL it became the foundation for an entire worldview - a culture founded entirely on a refusal to adapt to external change: in technology, in the mission, in anything. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Card, Application, IBM Mainframe, Financial, Physician, Mainframe, Data-processing, File, COBOL, IBM Corp., Records, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-20

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

The nature of data processing is to be long winded, boring, and dominated by acronyms derived from long gone technologies and business practices. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Program, Job, IBM Mainframe, Operating System, Environment, Mainframe, Instruction Set, Memory, Data-processing, Hardware, CPU, Unix, Computer, COBOL, Machine, IBM Corp., System 360, APL, JCL, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-13

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeReading this gives me the shakes......by bringing back my days at the Chubb Institute in 1991, learning BASIC, OS JCL & COBOL. MANY hours of flow charting...WITH PENCIL & PAPER...and many more hours at a terminal trying to get what I...

Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, data-processing, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COBOL, mainframe, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

BIt: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe This is the 4th excerpt from the second book in the Defen series: BIT: Business Information Technology: Foundations, Infrastructure, and Culture Note that the section this is taken from, on the evolution of...

Tags: IBM Mainframe, Environment, Mainframe, Data-processing, Computer, COBOL, IBM Corp., Flowmatic, Data Division, Identification Division, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-06

From BIT Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe

From BIT Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeContextThe reason COBOL still does most of the work today is because it has handled, is handling, and will handle simple tasks effectively on software that already exists and has been creepingly adapted to current circumstances.(You wouldn't want to quote that...

Tags: Mainframes, Strategy, Leadership, Programming languages, Servers, IBM Corp., COBOL, innovation, information technology, Web service, business side, mainframe, Web, IBM mainframe

Discussion threads 2008-05-23

Micro Focus Net Express 1.0.0.1 (Windows)

Micro Focus Net Express® is the market-leading COBOL development environment for extending core business processes to the .NET Framework and other distributed platforms. Powerful integration with Microsoft Visual Studio and the .NET Framework plus direct COBOL Web services capabilities, J2EE connectivity and XML support allow easy integration of existing and...

Tags: Micro Focus, Microsoft Windows, COBOL, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-02-11

Brief: 1

Brief: 1Minor detail"Flowmatic eventually became COBOL "Perhaps would be better stated as:"Flowmatic eventually became the software product known as COBOL"You are talking about the movement from mechanical cards to internal commands are you not? The way you currently have it assumes they know what COBOL is. While most...

Tags: Programming languages, COBOL, Flowmatic

Discussion threads 2008-01-11

Does the capital 'G' in Google stand for Gosling?

Does the capital 'G' in Google stand for Gosling?There are still jobs for CobolAlways a problem basing conclusions on one-off anecdotes or personal experience. There are still plenty of jobs for COBOL programmers too.Java was too slow, too late and too much trouble. Just as there are die-hards...

Tags: Programming languages, Domain names, Network technology, COBOL, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-09-24

Multiplying "Hello World"

Multiplying "Hello World"Guilty![i]...the programming language you think in shapes the algorithm choice and therefore affects both how you think about a problem and how you solve it - that's why COBOL programmers working in Perl usually just write COBOL using Perl notation.[/i]This is very true. When I first started...

Tags: Programming languages, Scripting languages, Development tools, C/C++, Now IT, Mark-Jason Dominus, Perl, COBOL

Discussion threads 2007-06-05

Cheerfully spreading paranoia

Cheerfully spreading paranoiaIt is not just COBOLYou can write cr*p code in any language - PERL is laughingly referred to as a "write once" language since once you've written you can't maintain it! If anything COBOL is very easy to read.The secret is good design - always has been and...

Tags: Programming languages, COBOL

Discussion threads 2007-05-21

IRS CIO holds out hope for modernization by holding onto COBOL systems

IRS CIO holds out hope for modernization by holding onto COBOL systems6502 ForeverUnder no circumstances should the IRS have better computers than we do. In fact I think we should take away their 360/30's and replace them with Atari 800's... just as soon as we figure out how to attach...

Tags: Programming languages, Internal Revenue Service, COBOL

Discussion threads 2007-04-12

IRS CIO holds out hope for modernization by holding onto COBOL systems

20 years and $5 billion later, the IRS is still unable to upgrade its computer system and continues to use mainframes running assembly code written in the 1960s, CNET News.com reports. The IRS long-term goal is to run its operations with the efficiency Americans expect of banks and...

Tags: IT Management, IRS, Government technology

Blog posts 2007-04-12

Cobol Working Storage Code Aid 1 (Windows)

Simple program to generate the source code for Cobol working storage section using in reports. Just write the look of your report using a text editor; run the program and specify the filename you just have edited, the output filename, and you are done.

Tags: Microsoft Windows, COBOL, Rafael Mota, Programming Languages, Storage, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-01-11