Cobol Coders: Going, Going, Gone?

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Many IT managers slowly migrating away from Cobol wonder whether they’ll run out of Cobol programmers before they run out of Cobol code.

Cobol, that mainstay of business programming throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, is not going away anytime soon. In a Computerworld survey early this year of IT managers at 352 companies, 62% of the respondents reported that they actively use Cobol. Of those, three quarters said they use it “a lot” and 58% said they’re using it to develop new applications. READ MORE