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SubjectRe: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support
> It's not necessarily that simple.  It might be for KFC and Dominoes, but
> for others, SCO is not the complete story. Many legacy systems are
> written in COBOL, and must pay a per-seat licence for that on top of the
> per-seat licence for UNIX. It is these systems that are most attracted
> towards SCO compatibility.

And they mostly use microfocus cobol which is available on Linux and uses
a vm is a trivial port, or they do a quick port to the fujitsu
cobol->java vm translator.

There are people in this community who deal day in and day out with
migrations. I don't hear a whisper of concern from those I deal with
about losing iBCS.

Alan


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