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 ...

The COBOL skills gap is neither as extreme nor as straightforward as you might imagine. Here’s what companies can do to keep their COBOL systems running, and what would-be COBOL developers should know ...

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Businesses are faced with a shortage of programmers with Cobol skills, but there is hope that a new generation of developers will emerge. In the fast-moving, ever-changing IT industry, businesses are ...

Cobol, an acronym for Common Business Oriented Language, made its first appearance in business applications in1960. According to David Wright, director of development of US-based funds management ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...