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Maybe by the time I am 70 I will be the only Mainframe Dinosaur left and will be earning 2 grand a day fixing COBOL progs and dodgy JCL ! only 16 years , then one day Rodney we will be millionaires
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Originally posted by malvolio View PostOperationally I would disagree. I ran a clustered mainframe that delivered a service with no downtime for four years, using early 90s technology. Cloud simply makes it much easier to achieve.
Then again, "Cloud" is a myth. It's simply someone else's computer network. You might as well use your own and after 3-4 years you're ahead on the ROI curve.
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Originally posted by SeanT View PostOperationally there's a whole world of difference between good quality cloud native distributed computing, and putting all your eggs in one basket.
Then again, "Cloud" is a myth. It's simply someone else's computer network. You might as well use your own and after 3-4 years you're ahead on the ROI curve.
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Originally posted by malvolio View PostOperationally there is no difference between a server (even a virtualised one on a large blade host) and a proper SMMP-capable mainframe.
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Originally posted by malvolio View PostOperationally there is no difference between a server (even a virtualised one on a large blade host) and a proper SMMP-capable mainframe. In many ways, modern client/server solutions are simply re-using the old mainframe/dumb terminal solution with better graphics.
The advantage of the modern approach is you can add CPU power a hell of a lot more cheaply.
The mainframe I was recently using had as a base, 141 processors and 10TB of memory but you have to remember that mainframes have been using virtualisation for a long, long time which means I had a heck of a lot of virtual processors.
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Originally posted by pauldee View PostWell, none of this is convincing me to make the leap! I just hope all the COBOL based companies do their migrations before all the old school COBOL devs retire.
Looks like I'm going to have to stick with all the cutting edge stuff.
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Originally posted by SeanT View PostQuick, someone tell Google.
The advantage of the modern approach is you can add CPU power a hell of a lot more cheaply.
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Originally posted by pauldee View PostI assume these are good money? Is the rate going up? Also, I assume these are all in London?
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Originally posted by pauldee View PostWell, none of this is convincing me to make the leap! I just hope all the COBOL based companies do their migrations before all the old school COBOL devs retire.
Looks like I'm going to have to stick with all the cutting edge stuff.
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Well, none of this is convincing me to make the leap! I just hope all the COBOL based companies do their migrations before all the old school COBOL devs retire.
Looks like I'm going to have to stick with all the cutting edge stuff.
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I believe that Next and CGI still recruit COBOL devs. Neither pay well!
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostYes...
As for people looking going into COBOL, remember these days it's not good just being a COBOL programmer you will also need to know a lot of other stuff, such as the databases used, i.e. DB2, the transaction systems, i.e. CICS or IMS, the debug tools, the middleware and so on.
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