), a leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announced Marco Cavanna, a community developer from Italy, as the winner of its Global COBOL ...

The COBOL programming language was created in 1959 and has been widely seen as obsolete for decades. Yet there are still a fair number of software systems based on the language. The economic stresses ...

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 ...

Mainframe computers running code dating back to the 1960s are still vital to some banks, airlines and government departments, but the skilled engineers familiar with their COBOL computer language are ...

The death of COBOL, as reported widely back in the heady days of client/server in the 1990s, has been greatly exaggerated. According to Gartner Inc., 80% of the world's business runs on COBOL, there ...

The watsonx AI model aims to help developers update COBOL code, while IBM is selling The Weather Company to an investment firm. IBM has unveiled its latest generative AI creation, which is designed to ...

Anthropic’s AI-powered computing-coding agent Claude appears easily capable of competing with one of IBM’s core businesses. Worries of this threat sent IBM stock careening on Monday. A deeper dive ...

Cobol may be well into its 50s but like any good Baby Boomer it's clinging on - thanks in large part to lingering legacy. A random sampling of online jobs boards today turned up eight Cobol jobs in ...