A lot of Cobol-based applications have a plot line similar to the first Star Trek movie. In it, the crew of the Enterprise discovers a huge, intelligent cloud they called “Veeger.” It turns out (plot ...

A small Minneapolis mainframe computer software startup is poised to change the way enterprises use and share data across the cloud. VirtualZ Computing Inc. claims to be the first and only ...

Opinion: From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear ...

Somewhere in a world full of advanced technology that we write about regularly here on TechCrunch, there exists an ancient realm where mainframe computers are still running programs written in COBOL.

The world’s largest enterprises run their business on Cobol—but can’t nimbly update that code in response to changing business needs due to quality concerns, antiquated processes and loss of ...

Search390 reports the results of a Micro Focus survey on mainframes and COBOL. According to the survey, COBOL is still the dominant language on mainframe computers and the median age of COBOL ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Since the introduction of COBOL in 1959 and its standardization 10 years later, it has served as the backbone of mainframe business ...

The mainframe is being used to support a growing number of customer-facing and revenue-driving services, according to a survey from Compuware. As consumers and organisations turn to the web to conduct ...

Around a third of modernisation projects that lift and shift mainframe workloads to a distributed architecture often fail, according to a regional executive at Rocket Software. In an interview with ...

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