How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go

Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go by stcredzero on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @09:56PM (#5366322)

> C++ and Python pretty much run everything, everywhere.

I don't think so. Last I heard, there was still a lot of COBOL out there.

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Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go by kyllo on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @09:48AM (#5368288)

Yes, yes there is.

Most banks, and many other businesses that have been around 30+ years, are still running on COBOL.

It was popular because of its highly readable syntax and its fixed-point packed decimal math for financial calculations.

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Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go by dwd on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @01:24AM (#5366973)

COBOL gets all the hate but if they have a Big iron mainframe then they'll most likely be running RPG.

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Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go by pjmlp on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @03:32AM (#5367289)

Only if it is AS/400 based systems.

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Re:How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go by mindcrime on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @12:45PM (#5369529)

RPG was more oriented towards mini-computers than mainframes, from what I recall. It's niche was the IBM S/36, S/38, AS/400 and iSeries boxes. I'm sure you probably could get RPG for your S/360 or S/390 or whatever, but from what I've seen over the years, it was mostly COBOL, PL/I, and MVS Assembler on the mainframes.

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