Posted by Mike on Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 716 views
COBOL is a useful language and will remain that way for a very long time. It has and keeps serving its purpose, which is to be a language targeted at non-programmers, mostly business analysts, with very few or none programming knowledge …
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 175 views
Tech-wise, Millennium Eve was so quiet, some started to wonder — did IT overspend on Y2K?
The Y2K bug may have been IT’s moment in the sun, but it also cast a long shadow in its wake.
The years and months leading up to the year 2000 were a hard slog for virtually everyone in IT, from project managers to programmers. Then, after IT definitively slayed the Y2K beast, IT executives were greeted not by cheers but with suspicious questions.
Was the Y2K threat overblown?
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 163 views
Drake Coker, writing in Data Center Journal, recently put together a piece on what the world would be like if all the COBOL systems in the world were taken … MORE