p track of shipping, jobs that are still in process, and the also use it for it quality assurance for when they are audited. While they do use COBOL, there are no future plans to expand their COBOL database to handle other parts of their company. This is true for many companies all through out the world. They have invested much time and money into their COBOL systems that will remain but not expand.Legacy COBOL programmers now need to change their skills. Some are looking to learn relational databases such as ORACLE or SYBASE, (who own the market for RDBMS technology), to round out their mainframe programming skills. Even DB2 is a good choice, when combined with UNIX and PC based technologies.I agree that COBOL is not dead, but that it has plat towed. While the system does work well for it’s purpose, there are many new languages that can do much more and are easier to implement. Oracle has become a growing language in the database world. Many of the new companies such as Xerox are looking to use oracle instead of COBOL. Not only that, but there are more people have taken an interest in using other languages such as C++, Java, and SQL besides COBOL. I think in about ten years we will see less and less of COBOL, and more of the other languages that are more widely used. ...
