{"id":334,"date":"2011-03-15T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/why-lotus-notes-will-die-and-cobol-will-survey\/"},"modified":"2013-07-09T15:52:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:52:02","slug":"why-lotus-notes-will-die-and-cobol-will-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/15\/why-lotus-notes-will-die-and-cobol-will-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Lotus Notes will die and Cobol will survey?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just some notes to be read on future.<\/p>\n<p>Lotus Notes will die because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The volumes capacities that the companies require cannot be stored by LN.<\/li>\n<li>The workflows these applications manage are being moved<\/li>\n<li>There are so much companies that are migrating to Exchange.<\/li>\n<li>There are not big new customers on LN since some years.<\/li>\n<li>What is IBM doing with LN?<\/li>\n<li>Nobody invest on a non relational database.<\/li>\n<li>Could is the natural solution for\u00a0replacing the need of\u00a0replica (LN is the only replica system that really works).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cobol will survive because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cobol cannot be replaced easily in Banks or insurance companies without a big investment. If you know a bank that replaced it, please let me know, I&#8217;m interested to listen about the experience.<\/li>\n<li>On the other industries, it will die, but I will focus on bank and insurance industries.<\/li>\n<li>Some of the processes managed in a bank cannot be moved to other platforms: so much complex to be tested with real results, too expensive.<\/li>\n<li>I know some banks that tried to get rid of Cobol, After some years and some million \u20ac, they decided to improve their Cobol environment.<\/li>\n<li>They manage huge volume of data and transactions (some of them in real time).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see if when I read this post in ten years I&#8217;m right or wrong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just some notes to be read on future. Lotus Notes will die because: The volumes capacities that the companies require cannot be stored by LN. 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