From: bill.gunshannon@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/10/2025 9:12 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:   
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   >   
   > Question: are they low-risk because they were designed to do one thing   
   > and to do it very well in extremely demanding environments ?   
   >   
   > Are the replacements higher-risk because they are more of a generic   
   > infrastructure and the mission critical workloads need to be force-fitted   
   > into them ?   
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   And here you finally hit the crux of the matter.   
   People wonder why I am still a strong supporter if COBOL.   
   The reason is simple.  It was a language designed to do   
   a particular task and it does it well.  Now we have this   
   desire to replace it with something generic.  I feel this   
   is a bad idea.   
      
   Thin of IBM as the same problem only  on a much grander scale.   
   Not just a language but a whole system with a target in mind.   
   And today you have people suggesting they replace that system   
   with something totally generic.  Why would that be a good idea?   
      
   And then we get back to the cloud. When you hand your data over   
   to a third party, it is no longer your data.  The term Zero Trust   
   is bandied about all the time.  And yet people agree to trust all   
   their data and even their business itself  in the hands of someone   
   with no earned trust and nothing to lose in the event of failure.   
      
   Not all change from the past is progress.   
      
   bill   
      
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