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 ...

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 ...

In Part 1 of this series, I talked a bit about how COBOL is everywhere. From telephones to credit cards to supermarket checkouts to ATMs — sometime during the day, just about everyone touches COBOL.

Tom Jodel, who is himself a programmer, interviewed his mother, who works as an IBM mainframe COBOL programmer at a major bank, about banking systems. Jodel's mother started in-house training at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...