If I had to bet, I would bet that COBOL code will be around longer than either Oracle or SAP. The companies migrating to Oracle or SAP may be doing the proverbial "jumping from the frying pan into the fire".
I pretty much do what he does except with xbase (dbase, foxbase/pro and clipper) on PC's. There are millions of lines of code written in the 90's still happily running.
In fact, the only "tech" I see from the 90's that's pretty much dead and buried is Netware and Vines.
Damn shame too, cause I loved Netware. Ol'well. :)
We're both old farts, compared to most of you guys. He's 64 and I'm 55.
But I do remember MS pushing Access (which was and probably still is utter trash, compared to FP). And then VB6. I hate VB. I have nothing against the language itself. I'm just still bitter at MS replacing FP with VB.
I am involved in a project that is replacing FP with Python. Now Python I like a lot.
I'm no fan of Access or VB, either. I do everything outside the main application in Python, too.