[ale] OT - Entry Level Job Opening

[cfowler]

http://www.theKompany.com provides a COBOL compiler.  The package is
called Kobol and comes with an IDE.  check it out.  May do a good
conversion for you.

Chris

On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 07:13, Charles Marcus wrote:
> > From: Alan Bowman [mailto:aminus at mindspring.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 10:00 PM
> >
> >> Actually, shops like this are perfect candidates for an LTSP
> >> network.  Uses plain, vanilla PCs as clients, and centralized
> >> Server based management is a snap.  The users are usually
> >> thrilled that they can get away from those ugly old green
> >> terminals, *and* you can also provide them with X-applications
> >> like OpenOffice, Mozilla, etc for writing letters, browsing
> >> the web and doing email.
> 
> >   This is something that we've tried to pursue, especially
> > since Caldera purchased SCO several years ago.  Part of the
> > problem we face is that the actual practice management
> > application itself is written in COBOL (remember, this software
> > was developed in the early 1980's), and except for the IBCS
> > module, I haven't found a way to run that application on Linux.
> 
> Um, maybe one of us is missing something but...
> 
> I wasn't talking about running the legacy app itself on a LTSP server.  Just
> set up an LTSP server to serve the workstations, then just run a terminal
> emulation app to connect to the current legacy box - the LTSP workstations
> simply replace the dumb terminals, but connect to the same (mini?
> mainframe?) 'server' that is currently 'serving' the dumb terminals.
> Obviously, I don't know anything at all about these legacy systems myself,
> but I do know that this is how LTSP was born.
> 
> Just join the ltsp mailing list and pose your question - you'll get an
> answer within the hour (probably a lot sooner - or you could even go to the
> IRC chat at:  #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net.
> 
> So, unless I am missing something, I still think LTSP would be the perfect
> solution for this situation.
> 
> Charles
> 
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