Thanks for the link.  I found the article interesting, but a little disconcerting.  It would seem to suggest that rather than retraining ones COBOL programmers, one would be better off just hiring skilled Java programmers.  It did leave me with some questions that may change the equation.  

How much experience do the COBOL programmers have with the current applications environment?  This would seem to me to have great weight on the train/hire decision.  If the in house programmers have a lot of experience and a deep understanding of the environment, what is the cost of training the new Java programmer to understand the system as well?

What are your thoughts?

>>> Doug Becker <[log in to unmask]> 02/12/01 03:06PM >>>
I will send the reference privately, but am uncomfortable with putting it on a public forum because of the verbage about not copying any of the Gartner Group's documents in any form. 
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