Price to convert one line of Cobol code to a modern language? [closed]

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I would like to know any prices you have heard of for one-to-one conversion projects from Cobol code to a modern language. We are talking about programs with several hundred thousand lines of code.

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I imagine it would be very difficult to accurately cost a conversion of this nature. Apart from the code, and understanding the business processes, you would also have to factor in changes for the new environment, running batch programs, print spooling, etc.

Instead of converting, have you checked out the possibility of changing the COBOL environment, i.e. running under .NET or JVM.

And COBOL is a modern language :-)