I work for a company that makes big yellow tractors and we are still creating programs in COBOL. In fact one of the main programs I wrote is being re-written. It was originally written in Java and now the powers that be are re-writing this program into AS400 COBOL. So never say COBOL is dying/dead because there are still very powerful companies that are creating new programs using this language
They forget of course that not everyone in the world has broadband access. Those on dial-up cannot update to SP2 easily. Here, regional WA, has patchy broadband at the best of times, let alone those who use the internet "just for emails" and don't want to spend a lot to do it.
I am tired of the "Do not have Broadband excuse" all anyone needs to do is follow this link and Microsoft will send you a Upgrade CD (3.99 Shipping). For those that do not want to spend time downloading 3.99 is a cheap price to pay.
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I work for a company that makes big yellow tractors and we are still creating programs in COBOL. In fact one of the main programs I wrote is being re-written. It was originally written in Java and now the powers that be are re-writing this program into AS400 COBOL. So never say COBOL is dying/dead because there are still very powerful companies that are creating new programs using this language