Some people think tens of millions of dead people are collecting Social Security checks. That's not true. What's really going on is people don't understand its old, underlying technology. The saga of ...

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 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 ...

Micro Focus has updated its developer platform for the Cobol programming language, adding the ability to run Cobol applications on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. Visual Cobol R3, released Thursday, ...