Runtime Fees: The Hidden Tax in Your Tech Stack
In COBOL environments, runtime-based licensing imposes recurring costs each time an application is executed—costs that persist well beyond the initial…
From Wine to Workforce Solutions – Influential Mainframer Magie Hall
Magie Hall, Ph.D., is an associate professor of information systems and quantitative analysis at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She’s…
Mainframes are swimlanes, AI is sprinkles, and COBOL only seems glacial
Derek Britton is one of COBOL’s biggest advocates, a one-man PR agency for the 65-year-old language that “suffers from an…
PART 4: COBOL—The Road Ahead
The Ailments of Age We’ve come to the final installment of our homage to COBOL. Let’s look at the challenges…
COBOL, My Saving Grace
Early 2025 will mark 45 years of my IBM mainframe-centric career that began as a COBOL applications programmer. As a…
COBOL PART 3: The Experts’ View
As COBOL reaches 65 years of loyal service in the IT world, this third piece in a four-part homage how…
Thoughts, experiences, and insights about COBOL
Looking back, I can still vividly remember the year when I graduated from college with a degree of Bachelor of…
COBOL has the Staying Power of a Keith Richards Guitar Riff
The most recent wave of media articles predicting the death of COBOL happened just before the pandemic. In 2019, COBOL…