Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Andrew Leahey is an attorney and law professor that covers tax. AUSTIN, TX - JUNE 10: A computer running COBOL 73, an antiquated ...

COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It's had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there's over ...

Veryant, the COBOL and Java technology innovator, announced new software designed to help organizations lower operational costs by modernizing COBOL assets. The latest version of Veryant's isCOBOL ...

In context: Despite being designed in 1959, the COBOL programming language is still widely used in applications deployed on mainframe computers. COBOL offers secure, reliable and transactional ...

Cobol applications now can be deployed to the Java Virtual Machine as well as to Windows Azure for the first time Micro Focus on Thursday announced it is extending its Cobol platform to Java and the ...

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 ...

COBOL-Java integrator Veryant has just released a new version of its is COBOL Application Platform Suite (APS). This version, isCOBOL 2010, adds support for Eclipse Galileo, which comprises 33 Eclipse ...