If you stacked every line of COBOL code remaining in the world, it would easily reach the moon. It’s an open secret that a supposedly dead programming language is still lurking in thousands of data ...

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GT Software, the sole distributor of Fujitsu’s NetCOBOL outside of Japan, has announced two new releases for its NetCOBOL user base, namely NetCOBOL for .NET v6.0 and ...

IBM has overhauled how the 50-year-old programming language COBOL runs on its System z mainframes to give COBOL apps a web-friendly facelift. Despite COBOL's age IBM estimates that more than 200 ...

IN THE NEARLY five years I have been writing for InfoWorld, never has an article of mine generated such incredible response as “Application transformation.” The article presented an overview of two ...

Old Glories: Fortran and Cobol are still among the world's most popular programming languages despite being almost 70 years old. They're certainly overachieving, but for entirely different reasons, ...

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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will explore the invention of the COBOL computer-programming language on its 50th anniversary in a display ...

Editor Bill Wong offers his take on COBOL, Ada contracts, and documentation considerations, and the common thread that ties them together. That could easily be applied to the COBOL (Common ...

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 ...