Clark Morris wrote: <begin extract> The costs to an ISV for distributing an application written in COBOL can be high because of having to pay for a runtime license for each machine. <end extract/>
The use of COBOL as an implementation language by ISVs has always been, if not exiguous, very low. COBOL is a user's language. Many ISVs take care to ensure that their products are usable from COBOL, but this is a very different matter. Moreover, the LE (Language Environment) is already available in all of the z/OS shops I am familiar with. Can Mr Morris be thinking of an ISV product implemented in COBOL for use by non-COBOL shops? If so, a z/OS shop that purchased such a product would incur licensing fees iff it wished [and was allowed] to recompile that product. This whole scenario is, however, a wildly improbable one. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
