The death of COBOL, as reported widely back in the heady days of client/server in the 1990s, has been greatly exaggerated. According to Gartner Inc., 80% of the world's business runs on COBOL, there ...

With an estimated 200 billion lines of COBOL in production today, mainframe applications form the core of many financial and other services across the corporate world. These applications often ...

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, will present a Webinar to show how companies can easily update valuable COBOL applications by developing modern and ...

The continuing search for a gentler Java includes software vendors seeking to make it easier for IT shops still working with mainframes and green screen terminals to move into the new era of Web-based ...

Cobol has certainly taken hits to its integrity over the four-plus decades it’s been in service. It’s now widely renowned as cumbersome and inflexible to today’s IT requirements. Despite such an ...

My first brush with COBOL was many moons ago, when I was working as an assembler programmer on an ICL 1903A mainframe. Ah, those heady days of wading through acres of spaghetti code. The whole purpose ...