Comments on: Watch it: Agile COBOL 2009 http://maketechnologies.com/gotlegacy/2009/07/watch-it-agile-cobol-2009/ An Insider's Guide to Legacy Modernization Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:13:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dave http://maketechnologies.com/gotlegacy/2009/07/watch-it-agile-cobol-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Dave Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:46:49 +0000 http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/?p=292#comment-89 You guys haven't published anything since July. I find the challenges of maintaining and modernizing legacy systems to be the most difficult and interesting of all computer science and software engineering problems. JULY? I'll give it another month, then I'm dropping this rss sub. You guys haven’t published anything since July. I find the challenges of maintaining and modernizing legacy systems to be the most difficult and interesting of all computer science and software engineering problems. JULY? I’ll give it another month, then I’m dropping this rss sub.

]]> By: Mik Lernout http://maketechnologies.com/gotlegacy/2009/07/watch-it-agile-cobol-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Mik Lernout Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:40:10 +0000 http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/?p=292#comment-88 I know: we were just making fun of taking new terminology and technologies and applying them without thought to older platforms. COBOL is an easy target, but it applies to almost every existing language: we haven't even started to talk about Natural for Ajax, OO PHP or ADABAS SOA. We, technologists, spend a lot of time discussing 'could', but often forget 'should'. It is not about 'check'-ing of features, it is about making organizations work better while reducing cost. This starts to sound like another blog post. I know: we were just making fun of taking new terminology and technologies and applying them without thought to older platforms. COBOL is an easy target, but it applies to almost every existing language: we haven’t even started to talk about Natural for Ajax, OO PHP or ADABAS SOA.

We, technologists, spend a lot of time discussing ‘could’, but often forget ‘should’. It is not about ‘check’-ing of features, it is about making organizations work better while reducing cost.

This starts to sound like another blog post.

]]> By: Mike Bleistein http://maketechnologies.com/gotlegacy/2009/07/watch-it-agile-cobol-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Mike Bleistein Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:54:42 +0000 http://gotlegacy.wordpress.com/?p=292#comment-86 Just because you call something "agile"...doesn't make it so. I keep saying this to people who aren't as agile in their thinking and their ability to stay as current as they think they are. Their knowledge of what COBOL can do is extremely obsolete. SOA? check! .NET? check! Unit testing? Really??...been doing that for years! Scrum?? Norhing to do with COBOL or any language for that matter...Scrum complements COBOL quite well! ...oh btw...high volume transcation processing on Windows, Linux, Unix...at a much lower cost than the mainframe...while taking advantage of SOA, .NET, etc....CHECK! Just because you call something “agile”…doesn’t make it so. I keep saying this to people who aren’t as agile in their thinking and their ability to stay as current as they think they are. Their knowledge of what COBOL can do is extremely obsolete. SOA? check! .NET? check! Unit testing? Really??…been doing that for years! Scrum?? Norhing to do with COBOL or any language for that matter…Scrum complements COBOL quite well! …oh btw…high volume transcation processing on Windows, Linux, Unix…at a much lower cost than the mainframe…while taking advantage of SOA, .NET, etc….CHECK!

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