I happened to see the "Nerd File" in the Jan. 12th (this year) New Yorker. The article states that Bob Bemer, an old (77) ex-IBM'er, was coming out of retirement to apply his Magic Bullet to object code of, I gather, COBOL, Pl/I, etc., programs. Bell Atlantic was supposedly interested. "Vertex 2000" was to have been launched in January, and would save the $$ billions that many of us are collecting for fixing source code. Did this flop? Anybody hear any more about it?

-- steve francis (sfrancis@sympatico.ca), April 23, 1998

Answers

Check it out and decide for yourself. They currently only list a version to fix COBOLII mainframe programs.

http://www.bmrsoftware.com/sol.html

-- Melinda Gierisch (gieriscm@hotmail.com), May 09, 1998.