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Re: "Which Technologies Matter?" & xml processing model

• To: uche.ogbuji@f... (Uche Ogbuji)
• Subject: Re: "Which Technologies Matter?" & xml processing model
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:39:28 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: jcowan@r... (John Cowan), clbullar@i... ("Bullard, Claude L (Len)"), andrzej@c... ('andrzej@c...'), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200203191612.g2JGCqh11239@l...> from "Uche Ogbuji" at Mar 19, 2002 09:12:52 AM

Uche Ogbuji scripsit:

> Eric Van der Vlist mentioned COBOl off-line, but from my distant observations 
> of COBOL legacy maintenance effort at ISSC, COBOL is more notable for the 
> mountains of data managed by its programs than for actual LOC.

Then you are looking at the wrong kind of organization.  The bank I worked for
had something over 100MLOC of locally written proprietary Cobol code
at the time of their 1998-99 inventory for Y2K.  (Some small amount
of this was actually not Cobol but System/360 assembler, but the
order of magnitude is correct.)  Multiply by the number of banks,
insurance companies, and brokerages.

-- 
John Cowan <jcowan@r...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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