I believe that VisualAge Cobol is still marketed, sold, and supported by IBM.

>Hi James,
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>john was wise in that he never gave a timeframe to his predictions.
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>I can make the same predictions about vb or java... eventually the products will disappear.
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>OK, maybe disappear is a harsh word, but we can certainly say that all products will eventually see a demise and only a fringe group of developers will use them (think Cobol, Clipper, PowerBuilder, etc.) even though the companies that developed the products don't support them anymore.
>
>Alex
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>>I saw this and couldn't resist myself. Click the link and then read the excerpt from a devx thread.
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>>

Sorry John. <BBG>

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>>http://www.quepublishing.com/content/images/0789725983/0789725983.jpg
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>>Author:John V. Petersen (jpetersen@mainlinesoftware.com)
>>Date: 07/12/2000 at 8:06 AM
>>OK...
>>
>>5 years ago, the paid subscription of FPA was close to 20K. Now, it is
>>around 8K. FoxTalk at the beginning had a paid subscription of 9K. Now, that
>>number is down to just over 1K (1,400 or so to be exact...)
>>
>>From a developer conference standpoint, in 1993 there were 3K attendees.
>>Today, you are lucky to get slightly over 1K to DevCon.
>>
>>Where once there were several books published by major publisher on Fox,
>>today there are none. We have pulled the plug on our 7 book. Reports are
>>that Que is not going to do another Using... book.