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Less dead than perl by far. I've seen a lot of new COBOL going into production just this year. New versions of the compiler (the IBM one, the only one that really matters for COBOL…

As somebody who likes it I think I would explain it along the lines of FreeBSD vs Linux. AIX is a complete package OS with some nice enterprise features, and it is modern and simil…

If POWER LPARs are the same as Z LPARs then a lot of it comes down to the difference in licensing between hard and soft partitioned VMs. On a typical VM Oracle will charge for the …

This is a key part of IBMs strategy, since it seems that LPARs on mainframes are treated as hard partitions and do not incur the same "whole machine" cost as VMs. At least that is …

I would recommend focusing on DB2 and Oracle rather than MSSQL if you are trying to learn about that. MSSQL is not particularly expensive in comparison and doesn't really try to co…

Which folks haven't mentioned yet, but z/OS is also a proprietary UNIX, albeit in a very strange way given that it is sorta like a subsystem/different way of looking at the same th…

I like it. The structure of the code you write looks much more similar to what you would write on a piece of paper than Haskell (for instance, getting rid of in, the pulling into s…

The thing is, there aren't really any successful greenfield developments in these types of business spaces. So either these are industries that are exceptionally difficult to break…