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Automated Migration From Cobol To Java On Linux

Posted by timothy on from the so-kids-go-ahead-and-code-in-cobol dept.

Didier DURAND writes "Just published an article about our 100% automated migration from IBM mainframe with Cobol to Linux Java: we could convert of our own application (4 million lines of code) through the tools that we developed. Those tools are open-sourced under GPL for other companies to benefit from them. We save 3 millions euros / year after this migration!"

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  1. Re:"Automated" by nicolas.kassis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Converting something that was unmaintainable due to lack of proper skils to something totally unmaintainable due to lack of readability is not a good trade off.

  2. I sense a modest disturbance in the job market... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    As though a few hundred cobol coders cried out in terror, and were suddenly obsolete...