I doubt this is really about working on new COBOL projects, but rather about being able to target a new environment for running existing COBOL projects. Like, for example, hosting applications on commodity x86-64 hardware running Linux. Or Linux virtual machines running on commodity hardware (or a cloud account) you already have.
I'm sure that IBM would rather you buy expensive P-series servers running AIX or Z-series mainframes, but they'll be happy to license you software for running on x86-64 too. And, I have a feeling that if someone was to contact support about performance problems, the #1 most often offered solution will be "Well, you should think about moving that to P-series hardware, either purchased and installed in your datacenter, or via our cloud offering..."
Finally the wait is over! (Score:1)
I waited for decades, decades to finally be able to work with COBOL on Raspberry Pi ... oh wait.
Seriously in the current market why would anyone half decent at coding would start working on COBOL projects?
Re:Finally the wait is over! (Score:2)
I doubt this is really about working on new COBOL projects, but rather about being able to target a new environment for running existing COBOL projects. Like, for example, hosting applications on commodity x86-64 hardware running Linux. Or Linux virtual machines running on commodity hardware (or a cloud account) you already have.
I'm sure that IBM would rather you buy expensive P-series servers running AIX or Z-series mainframes, but they'll be happy to license you software for running on x86-64 too. And, I have a feeling that if someone was to contact support about performance problems, the #1 most often offered solution will be "Well, you should think about moving that to P-series hardware, either purchased and installed in your datacenter, or via our cloud offering..."