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Re:An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real ... by adamcstephens on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:21AM (#26723240)
COBOL can and does run on x86 Linux. I suppose you could probably even put it in a container.
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Re:An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real ... by KptMarchewa on Thursday April 08, 2021 @08:05PM (#26745290)
It can, but do you really believe is this what those apps are working on, or even that they could work without major rewrite? They are strongly tied to their mainframe environments.
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Re:An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real ... by toomanybeersies on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @10:58AM (#26725880)
From Big Blue itself, COBOL on a Kubernetes cluster!

https://github.com/IBM/kubernetes-cobol

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Re:An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real ... by mrweasel on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @11:18AM (#26726147)
That fantastic and terrifying at the same time. The complexity of Kubernetes and when you open the container: Bam, Cobol.
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