Tony Placilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
>>> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:47 PM, in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I am working with
> a company that is migrating 20 years of Mainframe Software Development
> to Unix, HPUX. How much harder would it be to go to Linux, Centos Linux?
>
> Also, anyone have any experience with Fujitsu Cobol on Centos? The
> Fujitsu people only support Red Hat, and said I'd be on my own with
> Centos. In other words if it works, then I don't care about Fujitsu
> support.
>
> I know some of you are thinking, did someone say "COBOL"? Nobody uses
> COBOL anymore! If so, let me say "You are wrong". Many large
> corporations are taking their old business logic that was written in
> COBOL decades ago, and moving it to new modern platforms, like Linux.
> Programatically giving these applications a GUI face-lift, while
> maintaining their original business logic. I know because many companies
> pay me to do just that. I have a client that wants to use Centos Linux
> with Fujistu Cobol, and Fujitsu says it's gotta be Red Hat, any help
> will much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
A datapoint & the advice you get is worth what you pay.
Where I work (in a Uni library) we encounter the same issue. The ISVs *only*
support & certify against RHEL.
However, I do my development, test, staging, etc. on CentOS that I keep version
compliant with upstream.
I have had *no* problems.
My short answer is, if it works on RHEL, it works on CentOS.
Again, YMMV & if it breaks, you get to keeps the pieces.
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