Recently, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy blamed a shortage of COBOL programmers for the unemployment insurance systems being overwhelmed. Since then, I have seen a lot of press about this shortage of COBOL developers, including an article with the alarming headline “An old programming language is threatening global stability”. In discussing why there is such … Continue reading “It’s all COBOL’s fault! It’s Y2K all over again.”
Author: peterb
Why not move COBOL to the Cloud?
With all the discussion of COBOL recently, I’ve heard a lot of talk about moving COBOL to the Cloud. I have had some experience in this area, so I could not resist writing about it. This is another off-topic post for this blog site, but I added this as a companion for: It’s all COBOL’s … Continue reading “Why not move COBOL to the Cloud?”