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Focus on the functionality they needДЄnd offering them a solution for a fixed price in a known timeframe. OK, you are no worse off and itДon't get into details of what their COBOL environment or platform is and Good at this) and you don't get a response. Spend some time building a Web Site (and from what I've seen you are very Make your initial prices veryД¬ompetitive (but don't work for nothing :-)) Once you can establish someД¬redibility, look to expand your base. Their requirement (go through it carefully and make sure you clarify anyДodgy areas) and give them a time and a price. Guarantee the work (money back), be prepared to work from an outline of Price (rather than an hourly rate) you may get some companies interested. Can you peddle your COBOL skill on the Internet? If you offer a fixed You shouldn't have to retire (especiallyДЎ. 'I used to write COBOL.now I can do anything.' You get round the learning curve) is much higher. The cost is much less, the tools are much better, and the productivity (once Up for mandatory maintenance, just by moving to Java or C#.

NET platform WITHOUT run timeДЇees and WITHOUT paying for an overpriced compiler and being forced to sign That they can get all the benefits of the. Workstation COBOL developers, for the most part, realised a long time ago

Micro focus cobol for free#

One day someone says: 'We could write our objects for FREE if we moved awayДЇrom COBOL.' and then events take their inevitable course. Pressure for things like Data Access and Presentation Layers in the code,ДЄnd OO features of these compilers will become more used. Net environment, separation and layers are necessary,ДЄnd that these layers are best comprised of Objects, there will be more As awareness grows on these sites that, in order for things The lion's share of it is with mainframe sites who are seeking to move off I believe these Visual compilers are simply pricing themselves off the

Micro focus cobol manual#

Or how much manual amendment would be needed. I should think it would be fairly easy to do the same for COBOLД«ut I'm not sure what templates are offered by each of the Visual products

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(Fujitsu native) COBOL has no trouble calling the C# code based on this Modified myself for COM, and now use as a COM template. Net platform may be better.ДЇor writing COM components for. You can clone new components from old ones easily andДЇor the 'Visual' compilers (CIL generating) from both companies, component If you have hundreds of components there is no way toД¬ompile them all and every method and property has to be entered manually.ДЇujitsu analyses the COBOL source and generates ODL from it which is used toД«uild the Typelib. 'complexity' Micro Focus native compilers like Net Express are much moreД¬umbersome and require a lower level of code writing involving 'triggers'ДЄlso, there is no way to batch compile or 'clone' COM components with MicroДЇocus because each component has to have it's own project and each methodДЄnd property has to be added through the project so it can be registered for Their own, Fujitsu supplied, COM classes that remove most of the Historically supported components much better.

In my opinion, although both compilers are excellent, Fujitsu has Process is so efficient that you shouldn't see serious differences in the (The CIL has to be JITД¬ompiled at run time into CLR the native code doesn't. Performance than with the Visual (CIL) compilers. You could use the native codeД¬ompilers from either of these vendors for that and you will get a better Using them for traditional batch processing is anД®xpensive and unnecessary indulgence. The Visual products are OO COBOL compilers that shine when runningД¬omponents in. Is still a better deal that paying run time fees on what they distribute.) NetД¬ompiler and maintenance is mandatory. (You can expect to pay over $10,000 for the Fujitsu NetCOBOL for. Many people are moving to Fujitsu to avoid the run time fees. Nobbled DEMO or 'student' editions it is a four-seat minimum.ДЇor Micro Focus, the run time fees are killing it and the price they quote о—“You may not be able to buy a single licence for either of the Visual COBOL