EU hate the fact that the 'net is effectively owned by the USA (and this is an Aussie typing).
The EU can't organise a decent chook raffle, so leave ICANN alone, it works so don't try to 'fix' it.
Factoids...
"200 Billion lines of COBOL code in existence" eWeek
"5 Billion lines of COBOL code added yearly" Bill Ulrich, TSG Inc.
"Between 850K and 1.3 Million COBOL developers" IDC
"Majority of customer data still on mainframes" Computerworld
"Replacement costs $20 Trillion" eWeek
Researchers at Aberdeen Group recently found that about 70% of the world's business data is still processed by mainframe applications written in Cobol. According to Gartner Group, that number is closer to 75%.
"Although most people are blissfully unaware of CICS, they probably make use of it several times a week, for almost every commercial electronic transaction they make. In the whole scheme of things, CICS is *much* more important the Microsoft Windows." Martin Cambell-Kelly, "From Airline Reservations to Sonic Hedgehog" (a History of the Software Industry), MIT Press 2003
COBAL is not dead and won't die:)
Australia = elected government.
China = military dictatorship.
That's probably about right. Since Australia prides itself as a democracy
As an Aussie I can assure you that a vast majority of Aussie DO NOT WANT THE BLUDDY FILTER!
The number of polls and surveys have run at around 80+% against.
Why are they doing it? For basic political gain of right wing votes - plain and simple. See: http://nocleanfeed.com/ for more details
And you will miss Vegemite, Chicko Rolls, Twisties, Dim Sims and Meat Pies. Even if you hate them now, you will miss them. Have a strategy for getting a hold of some every now and again. And... Farmers Union Iced Coffee... oh noes... you are from Melbourne! Another reason Adelaide is great.
I guess the kangaroos won? They haven't won a grand final in freakin' ages. Not likely! 1999 (Crows beat em in 98). No where near as bad as Saints or Bulldogs.
Adelaide is such a hole, though I have a job I absolutely love. I've worked in Perth, Sydney and Melbourne as well as Adelaide. Adelaide has so much going for it - like NO traffic (compared with others), brilliant lifestyle, great food/wine etc.
You need to find a better social group!
Health care. Luckily for you, Canada has universal health care so you won't need to worry on that front. Ditto Australia... More or less... The basics are universal but you can have optional private cover for extras.
So what? Revert! The point is that *anyone* can edit. Companies who do this will just get bad publicity - they will lose. The system will self heal. The joys of a community based technology.
Mainframes can (and often do) run Java & Linux via ZAAP (Hardware JVM) and IFL (Hardware Integrated Facility for Linux).
System Z (the latest IBM marketing name) is the best platform for transactional processing bar none. (Check the independent TCO studies).
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Factoids...
"200 Billion lines of COBOL code in existence" eWeek!
"5 Billion lines of COBOL code added yearly" Bill Ulrich, TSG Inc.!
"Between 850K and 1.3 Million COBOL developers" IDC
"Majority of customer data still on mainframes" Computerworld
"Replacement costs $20 Trillion" eWeek
Researchers at Aberdeen Group recently found that about 70% of the world's business data is still processed by mainframe applications written in Cobol. According to Gartner Group, that number is closer to 75%.
Life gets better for the COBOL, PL/I or Assembler code cutter, IBM now have Eclipse based tools for editing, debugging, etc. on the mainframe (Eclipse runs in Wintel or Linux Desktop and it connects to you mainframe resources via TCP/IP). The tool even lets you generate / edit / manage z/OS JCL and execute batch jobs etc. (WebSphere Developer for Z)
CICS transaction can be deployed as a Web Service at a click of a button, which means that the traditional transaction processing engine can be easily integrated into the latest SOA based business processes.
"Although most people are blissfully unaware of CICS, they probably make use of it several times a week, for almost every commercial electronic transaction they make. In the whole scheme of things, CICS is *much* more important the Microsoft Windows." Martin Cambell-Kelly, "From Airline Reservations to Sonic Hedgehog" (a History of the Software Industry), MIT Press 2003
Most wouldn't download Gimp, they wouldn't know what Gimp is. They would stop using their PC for photo editing.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Assume all SW is now pirate proof. People would find out about GIMP real quick. In fact enforcing anti-piracy will help the FOSS movement imensly.
FLs like APL2 and J Jsoftware are the best for real computer scientists. You can do some really kewl thangs that I would never attempt in traditional languages. APL and J let you focus on the real problem.
Surely support for STANDARDS is much more important than blinking tabs! I like tabs, but IE is broken where it really counts - supporting W3C standards.
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That is users, but who controls the TLDs, standards, IETF -- mostly US peeps, and in 99% cases English speakers.
EU hate the fact that the 'net is effectively owned by the USA (and this is an Aussie typing). The EU can't organise a decent chook raffle, so leave ICANN alone, it works so don't try to 'fix' it.
Lets face it, there are not many licensed copies of XP in China. Meh!
Factoids... "200 Billion lines of COBOL code in existence" eWeek "5 Billion lines of COBOL code added yearly" Bill Ulrich, TSG Inc. "Between 850K and 1.3 Million COBOL developers" IDC "Majority of customer data still on mainframes" Computerworld "Replacement costs $20 Trillion" eWeek Researchers at Aberdeen Group recently found that about 70% of the world's business data is still processed by mainframe applications written in Cobol. According to Gartner Group, that number is closer to 75%. "Although most people are blissfully unaware of CICS, they probably make use of it several times a week, for almost every commercial electronic transaction they make. In the whole scheme of things, CICS is *much* more important the Microsoft Windows." Martin Cambell-Kelly, "From Airline Reservations to Sonic Hedgehog" (a History of the Software Industry), MIT Press 2003 COBAL is not dead and won't die :)
Australia = elected government. China = military dictatorship.
That's probably about right. Since Australia prides itself as a democracy
As an Aussie I can assure you that a vast majority of Aussie DO NOT WANT THE BLUDDY FILTER!
The number of polls and surveys have run at around 80+% against.
Why are they doing it? For basic political gain of right wing votes - plain and simple. See: http://nocleanfeed.com/ for more details
Free speech in their constitution or law. US law does not apply.
So what? Revert!
The point is that *anyone* can edit. Companies who do this will just get bad publicity - they will lose. The system will self heal. The joys of a community based technology.
Notes 8 is Eclipse Rich Client - the world has changed and it is actually good. Beta 3 is public and rumor has it Late Aug for release.
Is the Mainframe (and COBOL) Dead? ... No way!
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Mainframes can (and often do) run Java & Linux via ZAAP (Hardware JVM) and IFL (Hardware Integrated Facility for Linux).
System Z (the latest IBM marketing name) is the best platform for transactional processing bar none. (Check the independent TCO studies). !
Factoids...
"200 Billion lines of COBOL code in existence" eWeek!
"5 Billion lines of COBOL code added yearly" Bill Ulrich, TSG Inc.!
"Between 850K and 1.3 Million COBOL developers" IDC
"Majority of customer data still on mainframes" Computerworld
"Replacement costs $20 Trillion" eWeek
Researchers at Aberdeen Group recently found that about 70% of the world's business data is still processed by mainframe applications written in Cobol. According to Gartner Group, that number is closer to 75%.
Links...
http://www.arcati.com/dinomyth.pdf
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1914
Note: Universities are reintroducing COBOL to their IT Courses due to growing demand. See: http://courseprofile.cqu.edu.au/profile.jsp?cours
Life gets better for the COBOL, PL/I or Assembler code cutter, IBM now have Eclipse based tools for editing, debugging, etc. on the mainframe (Eclipse runs in Wintel or Linux Desktop and it connects to you mainframe resources via TCP/IP). The tool even lets you generate / edit / manage z/OS JCL and execute batch jobs etc. (WebSphere Developer for Z)
CICS transaction can be deployed as a Web Service at a click of a button, which means that the traditional transaction processing engine can be easily integrated into the latest SOA based business processes.
"Although most people are blissfully unaware of CICS, they probably make use of it several times a week, for almost every commercial electronic transaction they make. In the whole scheme of things, CICS is *much* more important the Microsoft Windows." Martin Cambell-Kelly, "From Airline Reservations to Sonic Hedgehog" (a History of the Software Industry), MIT Press 2003
Fosters ... spew...
Coopers!! Now thats a beer! (or Ale to be pedantic)
http://www.coopers.com.au/
Does Firefox 2 support WebFolders like IE or Konquer?
Reiser Rulz. Say no more.
As far as IBM goes they still own a lions share of the server market and could easily fork J2EE. That would also suck.
Why? IBM is committed to open computing and standards. IBM will/do drive standards, but as for forking - that would hinder the IBM strategy.
Yes, but... It would be really cool to be able to drag and drop files to and from a Firefox window. Which means I can use Firefox for any platform.
Any idea of a WebDav (WebFolders) capability? Then I would not need IE at all!
If M$ sue Linux ASSERT M$ sue IBM !
Are M$ as dumb as SCO?
IBM have Power6 chips running at 6Ghz. IBM have been able to do 4 cores with this new technology.
Refer here
FLs like APL2 and J Jsoftware are the best for real computer scientists. You can do some really kewl thangs that I would never attempt in traditional languages. APL and J let you focus on the real problem.
Surely support for STANDARDS is much more important than blinking tabs! I like tabs, but IE is broken where it really counts - supporting W3C standards.