>Well, they probably make more money converting people from mainframes to their COBOL on the PC. They were one of the sponsors of MSFT's DevDays.
COBOL on the PC? Oh, that's right, we're stuck with a bunch of older COBOL programmers that need something to do for a few more years :-)
But seriously, MFs are extinct, that's why the makers are ceasing to build them. It'll take a few more years for everything to get downsized, but it'll happen in the next decade or so.
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.