10 dying IT skills
Posted by Mike on Sunday, June 28, 2009 - 294 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 - 212 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
AS/400: Still Kicking After 21 Years
Posted by Mike on Monday, June 22, 2009 - 166 views
Size helps, and it is certainly true that the vast installed base of AS/400 shops and their ga-zillions of lines of RPG and COBOL code have helped keep the … MORE
COBOL anniversary highlights a vibrant ecosystem
Posted by Mike on Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 404 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 - 196 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 at 50: Same Age as Barbie, But More Like Rodney
Posted by Mike on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 - 90 views
Last Thursday, May 28, was cobol’s 50th birthday. If you didn’t gather around your data processing device to celebrate this technological … MORE
Long live COBOL
Posted by Mike on - 94 views
As Alex Handy lays out in the first of this three-part series on “COBOL at 50,” the language has not only survived, it has thrived in the face of a lifetime … MORE
COBOL’s impact
Posted by Mike on - 100 views
Micro Focus commissioned a study that looked into people’s daily habits and found that the typical American “touches” a COBOL application 13 times a day. MORE
