Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:24:10 GMT, "William M. Klein"
<wmklein@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Probably all of you who MIGHT care already know about it, but there were
several 
>significant announcements by IBM today.  Therefore, I won't post links to
all of 
>them, but some that might interest some in CLC are:
>   (I think these links will work, but they may be "individualized" for
me.  Let 
>me know and I can look for other links if these don't work generally.)
>
>HARDWARE:
>  IBM System z10 Enterprise Class -- The forward-thinking mainframe for
the 
>twenty-first century
>   
http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_2548_62970_email_DYN_1IN/WKlein12584487
>
>OPERATING SYSTEM (preview)
>  Preview: z/OS V1.10 -- Raising the bar and redefining scalability, 
>performance, availability, and economics
>   
http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_2548_63032_email_DYN_1IN/WKlein12584487
>
>ISPF (yes, it is "well and getting enhancements")
>  IBM ISPF Productivity Tool V5.10 enhancements deliver increased
efficiency for 
>ISPF users
> 
http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_2548_63020_email_DYN_1IN/WKlein12584487
>
>   ***
>
>For a summary of today's announcements, go to:
> 
http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_2548_62925_email_DYN_1IN/WKlein12584487

What is striking is what announcements were not there.  There was NO
announcement of COBOL sup****ting floating decimal.  There was NO
announcement of COBOL being able to interoperate with 64 bit JAVA.
There was NO announcement of any sup****t for the features of the 2002
standard.  There was only an announcement of COBOL XML sup****t.  From
what I can see COBOL for IBM is a cash cow that is going to go away.