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Re:Learn COBOL in 1 Day by mvdwoord on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @03:27AM (#37388880)
I work at a place where they use this for running legacy, but quite profitable, trading and payment systems. These were ported from both AS400 and mainframe alike and currently run on Microfocus on regular windows VMs on our internal cloud platform.

x86 / VSphere ESXi / Windows 2016-19

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Re:Learn COBOL in 1 Day by nxobject on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @04:56AM (#37389407)
Would you happen to know why your company was able to ditch mainframe iron? (Was it because you didn't need the uptime, for example?)
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Re:Learn COBOL in 1 Day by mvdwoord on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @07:28AM (#37390310)
It was an initiative from our group CIO to reduce the number if different architectures.

Uptime requirements did not change. There was just a very strong desire to ditch the mainframes ... and a long and painful way there.

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