For effectively all new development, the COBOL language is irrelevant. Many seem to think that Java is irrelevant, too, but I don't think that's the case. The problems that the languages were trying ...

Some states have found themselves in need of people who know a 60-year-old programming language called COBOL to retrofit the antiquated government systems now struggling to process the deluge of ...

Our friends at Micro Focus shared this with us: September 18th marked the 50th birthday of COBOL, or Common Business-Oriented Language. Half a century after its conception, more people and systems use ...

Chris O'Malley is President and CEO of Compuware, a BMC company, bringing mainframe DevOps to the Autonomous Digital Enterprise. You’ve probably seen more headlines about COBOL this year than in the ...

This week, another great milestone in the field of running Minecraft in unexpected ways has been met— this time, courtesy of the open-source CobolCraft project, we have a version of server Minecraft ...

Ventilators, retired doctors, N95 face masks — all have been in high demand from heads of state and U.S. governors, but now you can add COBOL programmers to that pandemic response list. That's right, ...

(Updated 4/10: IBM and the Linux Foundation have partnered to set up a portal for both experienced and new COBOL coders to share resources and find opportunities. Here's a link to IBM's press release ...

Programming languages don't often make national headlines. But New Jersey governor Phil Murphy's plea earlier this month for developers familiar with the 60-year-old programming language Cobol to help ...

When Mihaela Lazar first learned COBOL in the early 1970s, little did she know that she would be paving the way for a successful career several decades later. In the 2000s, Lazar got a job offer she ...