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Microsoft wants to feed Oracle to them. Well, so do most of us.
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Enterprises that rely on mainframe are having a hard time delivering applications as fast as they need to, a new report by Forrester and Compuware has shown. This news brought to you by 1970
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Quote: Enterprises that rely on the Ford Model-T are having a hard time delivering as fast as they need to, a new report by Gartner has shown.
Ya think?
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You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Almost half (48 per cent) have moved some apps off the mainframe, which resulted in security issues, higher costs, poor performance and project delays. More than four in ten (41 per cent) are trying to work around the mainframe, resulting in greater complexity, more expenses, double tooling and more security risks.
Ummm...so, moving apps off of mainframes sounds even worse. Says something about our industry.
That said, having recently encountered some nice COBOL devs where I currently have a contract (for C# development), the major obstacle they encounter is not the mainframe, or even COBOL. It's the bureaucracy that has grown up around the mainframe, code deployment, etc. What used to take a few hours in the 80's (that's 1980's) apparently takes a week or more now, not because of the technology, but because of the paperwork, approvals, and layers of management.
That, IMO, is the real headache.
Marc
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That has always been the main headache. It's just that there is more and more of it as time goes on.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Idiots need jobs too - its just we have to suffer for it 
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That's what I'm currently having with some C# applications as well.
We need to discuss the change, fill out some paperwork about risks, what has changed, etc. then I need to put it on the customers test environment, then they are going to pick a time frame for testing, then we need to fill out more paperwork, and after a few weeks everything can go to their production environment.
All of that, no matter how small the change.
The fun part is, we created a new application during the course of a year, we went over the specs together a couple of times, it cost them a lot of money, and then we did all that paperwork, they tested and whatnot.
A week after that's all done I get a phone call "Hi Sander, when will you be putting that software on our production environment?"
What the... I can't even...  
Shortly after that, a call "Hi Sander, can you just change how that looks?" "Sure, you can have it next month. Maybe."
Or I got questions like "can we do this or that?" while it's all in the specs we discussed together and they approved (I even send them an extra copy) 
All that bureaucracy and what for?
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Sander Rossel wrote: Shortly after that, a call "Hi Sander, can you just change how that looks?" "Sure, you can have it next month. Maybe."Or I got questions like "can we do this or that?" while it's all in the specs we discussed together and they approved (I even send them an extra copy)
I had that problem too a couple of years ago. And in addition, my boss asked (just to say it nicely) me "why so much time to write the specs?"
1 month after I started programming, that kind of questions came...
My answer was... Yes it is possible to change / add that feature, but it will cost XXX
Original offer: Around 1m
Spec points bought: aprox. 45% (concrete features, skeleton and body was already defined)
Project price in contract: 570k
Implemented points of the spec at the end: 85%
Changed specs: 25%
New points: Some
Final price of the project: 1,7m
Then, when customer took property of the results and payed the last bills, I answered my boss... "that's why I took so much to write the specs"
I was never asked again.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Today we announce Gogland, a brand new Go IDE and the latest addition to the IntelliJ family. Just like their other tools, now with a language you don't use!
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Gogland? is that Gog of "Gog and Magog of Armageddon" fame?
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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 I hope so. A good apocalypse will brighten my day.
TTFN - Kent
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Better that than using a tool called "Go Gland" anyway.
TTFN - Kent
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"Go Gland" was my reading of it too. Another candidate for "What were they thinking?"
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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But not better than one named "GoGoLand"... 
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Hmmm, interesting observation. Gog, in the Bible, is the demon angel that manipulates the leader of Magog. Magog is supposed to be due north of Israel, so that would be Russia. Oh no! Gogland is Russian!
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Well, that's cool. One of my many reluctances (ok, that's not a word, apparently) to learning a new language is the complete lack of a decent IDE. JetBrains has quality IDE's, so I'm willing to take a peek.
Marc
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CLion may be the slickest Java app I've ever used. Unfortunately, I'm now stuck with eclipse for various reasons.
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The zero-day exploits, which Evans published on Tuesday, are the latest to challenge the popular conceit that Linux, at least in its desktop form, is more immune to the types of attacks that have felled Windows computers for more than a decade and have increasingly snared Macs in recent years. Welcome to the real world
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"Will it run Doom?" has become the standard of hacking something to a conceivable point of usability. Which key do you press to strafe?
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AT&T will help NASA beef up its Deep Space Network by providing a high-speed VPN to connect giant radio antennas around the world. It's actually so they can download from the Macroscope without being tracked
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By open-sourcing .Net Core, Microsoft is reaping the rewards -- as are the developers. "Everybody's happy nowadays"
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It’s still too early to install the latest patches for Win7, 8.1, and Office, but next month things will get less complicated. Now I have to find some new reading material
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Following in the footsteps of other major browser makers, Microsoft announced plans to enable Click-to-Run functionality for Flash-based content in the next public release of its default web browser for Windows 10. Pretty soon, the only place you'll be able to run Flash is in the IDE
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As NASA’s Curiosity rover makes its way up a layered mountain on Mars, the little bot is finding even more signs that the Red Planet was once a habitable place — potentially capable of hosting microbial life billions of years ago. Then they tried to invade us. Look where that got them!
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