On 09/09/2013 10:08 AM, David Andrews wrote: > I see that in January the price for COBOL V3 and V4 will be raised to > equal V5. So there's one reason not to upgrade that no longer exists. > Just a radical thought... >From users' standpoint IBM could have achieved an even better impetus for migration by making V5 cheaper than V3 and V4, to compensate for installation migration costs and the likelihood that in some shops higher compile costs during program development will exceed execution-time savings from better object code optimization.
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