Last summer, Michael Vu, a 40-year-old independent IT consultant, found himself in a wholly unexpected place midway through his career. He’d signed a three-week contract to help a major U.S. retailer ...

In Part 1 of this series, I talked a bit about how COBOL is everywhere. From telephones to credit cards to supermarket checkouts to ATMs — sometime during the day, just about everyone touches COBOL.

Join Our Crew: Application Maintenance Developer Wanted! Are you ready to take your COBOL skills to the next level? We’re on the lookout for an Application Maintenance Developer who thrives in the ...

Cobol and Node.js may seem like an odd pairing, but a developer has created a link between the two platforms, despite criticisms Linking the old world of programming with the new, a Web developer from ...

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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 ...

NEW YORK, USA: FairCom Corporation has announced a new solution for COBOL environments, c-treeACE for COBOL. This new technology exposes previously inaccessible silos of COBOL data to open access ...

You’re wrong if you think COBOL programmers are doomed to go the way of the Edsel. Despite predictions to the contrary, the world kept revolving around its axis after Y2K. Yet, the job market for ...

Recruitment agents, you can keep your Java and C++ developers. The head of development at one of the world's largest providers of funds management software says Cobol is still the best language for ...

Consider the following items allegedly gathered from various Gartner reports: * There are 310 billion lines of legacy code operating in the world (65% of all software). * Five billion lines of new ...