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  • Should universities offer Cobol classes?

    Posted April 8, 2013 - 9:37 am

    At universities today, Cobol is mostly taught as an elective, and even then it's likely offered at less than one in four schools. There are strong opinions about whether that is the right direction.

  • COBOL will outlive us all

    Posted February 12, 2013 - 9:07 am

    In the early 1980s, I was told that COBOL was going away and that I should quickly move toward other programming languages. Well, thirty years later, COBOL is alive and well and living in large companies everywhere.

  • Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

    Posted May 21, 2012 - 10:55 am

    David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs -- 343 million lines of code -- that run core banking and other operations. But many of the people who built that code base, some of which dates back to Cobol's early days in the 1960s, will be retiring over the next several years.

  • Survey: Cobol noose tightening

    Posted April 23, 2012 - 10:58 am

    The impending talent crisis appears to be hitting home in more organizations.

  • Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

    Posted March 18, 2012 - 7:16 am

    David Brown is worried. As managing director of the IT transformation group at Bank of New York Mellon, he is responsible for the health and welfare of 112,500 Cobol programs -- 343 million lines of code -- that run core banking and other operations. But many of the people who built that code base, some of which goes back to the early days of Cobol in the 1960s, will be retiring over the next several years.

  • Java apps have most flaws, Cobol apps the least, study finds

    Posted December 8, 2011 - 9:19 am

    There is a lot of badly engineered software in the world that's creating a lot of risk to businesses and organizations, and accumulating so-called 'technical debt.'

  • IT's most wanted: Mainframe programmers

    Posted December 1, 2011 - 7:20 am

    As students study other technologies, vendors try to develop new talent and offer tools to fill the gap for these critical systems

  • Cobol comes to the cloud

    Posted January 20, 2011 - 12:54 pm

    Micro Focus updates Visual Cobol to include access to Azure and the Java Virtual Machine

  • Cobol skills drought persists amid mainframe migrations

    Posted November 22, 2010 - 12:34 pm

    Enterprises struggling to fill demands for Cobol skills should consider an application modernization program which could also pave the way for migration off the mainframe to an open system.

  • 7 programming languages on the rise

    Posted October 25, 2010 - 11:13 am

    From Ruby to Erlang, once niche programming language are gaining converts in today’s enterprise

  • One firm's story: The mainframe goes, but Cobol stays behind

    Posted April 20, 2010 - 1:16 pm

    Medical supply company Owens & Minor has decided to continue using its Cobol-based ERP system, but is moving it from a mainframe computer to x86 servers.

  • Career Watch: Making Cobol cool again

    Posted April 5, 2010 - 3:27 pm

    Darin Edmunds, the leader of the Action program at Micro Focus explains what it's doing to bring young people into the Cobol fold.

  • Looking for job security? Try Cobol

    Posted October 23, 2008 - 1:19 pm

    A career as a Cobol programmer might not be as sexy as slinging Java code or scripting in Ruby, but if you buckle down and learn hoary old Cobol, you could land one of the safest, most secure jobs in IT.
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