IT managers that use Cobol in their organizations are quick to defend the the capabilities of the language – even as many plan to get rid of it. This week’s cover story, Cobol: Not Dead Yet, examines ...

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 ...

In context: Despite being designed in 1959, the COBOL programming language is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers. COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional ...

As the CEO of Micro Focus, Tony Hill sees Cobol applications on mainframes as assets that IT organizations can leverage on new, more nimble Windows, Linux and Unix platforms running Web services ...

The programming language known as COBOL, which stands for Common Business Oriented Language, turns 65 this year. We couldn’t help noticing that’s right around retirement age, but COBOL is nowhere near ...

Research commissioned by Micro Focus suggests there is more Cobol code still in use than previously thought. The survey, conducted by research company Vanson Bourne, attracted responses from 1104 ...