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Entrepreneurs need to help California’s IT systems

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, January 27, 2010 - 150 views

They run under operating systems like CICS and IMS.” There was a time when there was a big difference between these enterprise systems and the PC and Web applications that Silicon Valley entrepreneurs build. …

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Mainframes Still Garnering Key Support

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 - 128 views

This change of attitude has given new life to the COBOL programming language as well. Many organizations are re-purposing their COBOL applications for the … MORE

COBOL’s future lies in the clouds

Posted by Mike on Thursday, July 2, 2009 - 124 views

It’s been 50 years since the initial specifications of COBOL were laid out, yet the future remains bright for the venerable programming … MORE

10 dying IT skills

Posted by Mike on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 128 views

… it also appears in as many articles about organizations with legacy applications written in COBOL that are having a hard time finding workers with COBOL … MORE

Modernization of Legacy Applications: When Is the Right Time?

Posted by Mike on Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 110 views

Even people with skills in COBOL — the once predominant language — are becoming more difficult to find. Most programmers no longer learn COBOL in school; … MORE

COBOL anniversary highlights a vibrant ecosystem

Posted by Mike on Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 307 views

COBOL’s place in the enterprise and on the mainframes of businesses around the world remains a function of the language’s ever-expanding horizons. … MORE

COBOL Is Dead; Long Live COBOL

Posted by Mike on Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 95 views

Cobol, the time-tested computer language, which critics have periodically pronounced dead only to see it springing back to life each time, celebrated its … MORE

COBOL Support in SQL Server 2008???

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 119 views

When I started out as a programmer all those years ago, I was coding in COBOL using IBM Mainframes running MVS with IMS and DB2 Databases.

Read the rest of Brian Egler’s article here.