IBM Takes System/z To the Cloud With COBOL Update 256
hypnosec writes "IBM is taking its COBOL server platform to the next level by updating the mainframe platform in a bid to extend and enable its mainframes to host cloud based applications and services. The latest update is looking to add XMLS Server as well as Java 7 capabilities to the System/z COBOL platform and this update would extend the overall lifespan of COBOL by taking it up a notch and gearing it towards the cloud computing arena."
Anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
A stake and garlic? Anyone?
Ugh (Score:5, Funny)
Extended COBOL lifespan?!
THANKS OBAMA! :(
Re:Ugh (Score:5, Funny)
Never a death panel when you need one.
Re:Anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
mmmm, steak and garlic. Oh, wait...
Rebranding (Score:4, Funny)
IBM should take to calling it Cloudframe. Because everything needs a cloud based marketing spin.
if it aint broke (Score:4, Funny)
hook it up to javascript so that the 20 somethings fresh out of college can use it
Re:Ugh (Score:5, Funny)
The damned thing's immortal.
IBM has found the secret to everlasting life!
Surely, there is some money to be made here?
Re:Anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
PERFORM 3 TIMES
DISPLAY "Die!" WITH NO ADVANCING
END-PERFORM.
STOP RUN.
Re:Anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
COBOL on the other hand has well designed base of apps that have stood the test of time and still process the most important financial transactions
Not to mention a mean developer age of 73...
Re:COBOL code is not too different (Score:5, Funny)
Anytime you use VB your are using a form of COBOL.
Anytime you use Visual Basic, you are incrementing the counter keeping track of exactly which Circle of Hell you'll eventually be deposited into.
Re:Anyone? (Score:4, Funny)
Not to mention a mean developer age of 73...
Get off of my lawn, sonny. If it was good enough for Grace Hopper, it's good enough for me. BTW, do you want to get paid next month, or should I put a bug fix into that code I wrote 40 years ago?
COBOL: Cloud Oriented Business Objective Language? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
Not to mention a mean developer age of 73...
Get off of my lawn, sonny. If it was good enough for Grace Hopper, it's good enough for me. BTW, do you want to get paid next month, or should I put a bug fix into that code I wrote 40 years ago?
I thought "mean" referred to the arithmetic average, rather than personality...
Re:Anyone? (Score:2, Funny)
What's hilarious, is that as a not a developer, that was perfectly readable. Is that actually COBOL?
COBOL was designed so that PHB's could look at the code and imagine that they understood what the program did.
God help us all.