As the CEO of Micro Focus, Tony Hill sees Cobol applications on mainframes as assets that IT organizations can leverage on new, more nimble Windows, Linux and Unix platforms running Web services ...

My first brush with COBOL was many moons ago, when I was working as an assembler programmer on an ICL 1903A mainframe. Ah, those heady days of wading through acres of spaghetti code. The whole purpose ...

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...

Micro Focus, which provides enterprise application modernization and maintenance solutions, announced that its Micro Focus Visual COBOL solution now supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2015. Introduced ...

Getting old or new Cobol applications to run in Microsoft Corp.’s .Net development environment should become a more realistic option now that the leading Cobol tools vendor has signed up for Microsoft ...

When the threat of Y2K reared its head many of us IT reporters wrote heaps about luring programmers out of early retirement to make sure that Cobol-based applications didn’t go kaput when the clocks ...

Micro Focus has announced the general availability of Visual COBOL 6.0 and Enterprise Suite 6.0 to provide versatile application, process, and infrastructure modernization solutions for enterprise ...

Cobol has certainly taken hits to its integrity over the four-plus decades it’s been in service. It’s now widely renowned as cumbersome and inflexible to today’s IT requirements. Despite such an ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Micro Focus International, a provider of legacy application development and deployment software, announced Wednesday that it will provide a method for migrating legacy applications to HP and IBM Unix ...

Micro Focus has announced the results of its new COBOL Survey that reveals the latest global developments and 2022 plans for enterprises utilizing COBOL and mainframe technology. The survey found that ...