The most widely adopted computer language in history, COBOL is now causing a host of problems. It's also dangerously ...

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 ...

Investors reacted to Anthropic’s assertion that Claude Code could streamline legacy COBOL modernization, raising concerns ...

COBOL was associated with the Y2K phenomenon at the turn of the century, a software problem arising from the inability of ...

COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language and was created in 1959. It was partly drawn on the work of computing pioneer Grace Hopper and was built for a single purpose: processing business ...

With the decline, IBM shares have fallen 27% in February, on track for its biggest one-month slide since at least 1968, ...

IBM still profits from mainframes running decades-old COBOL systems. Anthropic says AI can migrate that software elsewhere.

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — The phrase “the future of Cobol” might seem an oxymoron, but in a talk so titled at the Club de Investigacion Tecnologica SA’s software transformation seminar here Friday, ...

Perhaps rather unexpectedly, on the 14th of March this year the GCC mailing list received an announcement regarding the release of the first ever COBOL front-end for the GCC compiler. For the ...

The legacy programming language that refuses to die is still powering millions of daily transactions, but the difficulties of maintaining and integrating Cobol mainframes make the case for ...

Despite the proliferation of digital banking apps, the banking industry still runs almost half its systems on a 1950s programming language, which makes it difficult for financial institutions to ...

TL;DR: Minecraft has long been a platform for impressive feats by modders, from recreating massive structures to running computer systems within the game. Now, a new project takes this creativity to ...