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Story: Easing Cobol into a Web-shaped world
Posted by: Jason (Thursday 21 July 2005, 9:11 PM)
It's not really about the technology so much as who's behind the technology and pushing it forward. MSoft is big and pushing their .NET solutions, so as long as they keep doing that, it will have a presence and continue to evolve.
IBM, Oracle, Sun, and other heavy hitters are pushing Java, so it's going to continue to be adopted and continue to evolve too.
The new COBOL and all of the extensions may be the greatest thing ever, but without an 800-pound corporate gorilla to champion it, market it, and generally beat the drum, it simply won't fly.
Plus, you may want to think about if the new plugins are really innovations, or is it just COBOL playing catch-up. It's one thing to bolt on OO and HTTP/socket awareness to a language, but that doesn't make it immediately desirable to use.
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