I am in a senior project where we are designing a new system to replace a legacy system running cobol. Currently, the business process in consideration involves reliance on a single cobol programmer, and any changes to the actual rules need to be hard-coded every year. All data needs to be hard coded as well. The process simply does some calculations and outputs the answers to a file for further manipulation and ultimately printing. The business wants to upgrade this process to a modern solution that doesn’t involve a mainframe or cobol, and is easily updated and changed when neccessary.
We are thinking along the lines of a server, and some-type of SQL-based solution (to allow for easy retrieval of info, and updating). Which software package best fits this problem? And, what is needed to calculate the figures and ultimately output them to disk? Microsoft SQL server? Access? Oracle?
Please help
