The 60-year-old programming language that powers a huge slice of the world’s most critical business systems needs programmers Some technologies never die—they just fade into the woodwork. Ask the ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Since the introduction of COBOL in 1959 and its standardization 10 years later, it has served as the backbone of mainframe business ...

Micro Focus has announced the results of its new COBOL Survey that reveals the latest global developments and 2022 plans for enterprises utilizing COBOL and mainframe technology. The survey found that ...

Derek Britton is product director at Micro Focus. "We should note the force, effect, and consequences of […] three discoveries the ancients didn't know. [They] have changed the whole aspect and state ...

At universities today, Cobol is mostly taught as an elective, and even then it’s likely offered at less than one in four schools. For most students, this means the odds are high that they will attend ...

The product is targeted at modernizing mainframe applications that run on IBM Z systems, as the number of COBOL developers starts to dwindle. In a bid to help IBM Z systems customers modernize their ...