Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:06:33 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support |
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> 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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