COBOL
COBOL- still standing the test of time
Posted on 30. Apr, 2012 by Micro Focus.
The debate over COBOL’s continued relevance and indeed its future continues to persist in the developer community and IT world in general. But while every business has its language preferences, there is no denying that COBOL continues to play a vital role for enterprise business applications. COBOL still runs over 70% of the world’s business [...]
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Micro Focus Developer Conference: Day One Wrap Up
Posted on 18. Apr, 2012 by Micro Focus.
We officially kicked of the 2012 Micro Focus Developer Conference in Dallas, Texas yesterday. The event is bringing together the Micro Focus team with its partners, ISVs, customers and members of the COBOL programming community to discuss the future of enterprise application development. In the action-packed first day of the conference, attendees noted the following [...]
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Is your business ready for the consumerisation of IT?
Posted on 15. Mar, 2012 by Micro Focus.
The consumerisation of IT is a growing phenomenon whereby employees are buying their own devices for personal and work use. While this ‘bring your own device’ approach offers opportunities as well as potential risks, there is a general consensus across the IT industry that this trend is something that most businesses will be unable to [...]
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Standing the test of time
Posted on 27. Feb, 2012 by Micro Focus.
We’ve come to the end of our series of blogs discussing how COBOL stands the test of time.
As IT spend declines, innovation is expected to soar and IT departments have to exploit leading edge technologies for application deployment to stay ahead of the game. With new technologies comes a need for new skills without losing [...]
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#Winning with COBOL – The IT Debt Battle
Posted on 19. Jan, 2012 by Micro Focus.
Java, Objective-C, Python, Ruby, COBOL, PL/I, etc., etc., etc – there are enough language choices out there today to make an application developer’s head spin. What is truly the best option for enterprise business applications?
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Video: COBOL Crystal Ballin’ – What will 2012 bring?
Posted on 09. Jan, 2012 by Micro Focus.
In this quick video post, Micro Focus’ Ed Airey takes a look forward at 2012 and shares this thoughts about what the year has in store for IT in the business setting. Above all, Ed predicts that with companies still battling economic pressures, many organizations will be forced to take a new approach to project [...]
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The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from.
Posted on 12. Dec, 2011 by Micro Focus.
With 50 years of history and counting, COBOL is of course pervasive. But the number of lines of COBOL code isn’t the only big thing about COBOL. The language itself is vast and there are several dialects each with its own vocabulary and semantic behavior.
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Who Still Cares About COBOL?
Posted on 17. Nov, 2011 by Micro Focus.
The high level language beloved by banks, COBOL is 50 years old and still in widespread use, says Ed Airey of Micro Focus.
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How COBOL has stood the test of time
Posted on 10. Nov, 2011 by Micro Focus.
Part 4 – Heritage
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Our Live Twitter Q&A with @JulianDobbins
Posted on 13. Oct, 2011 by Micro Focus.
Last week, Micro Focus took part in a live Twitter Q&A with Julian Dobbins, product marketing, agile software delivery at Micro Focus. If you missed our online chat you’ll find the transcribed conversation below, so you can follow our discussion about IT modernization best practices, trends, and insights.
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COBOL: Standing the test of time
Posted on 11. Oct, 2011 by Micro Focus.
Part 3 – Future-Proofing
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COBOL- still standing the test of time
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